Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CYNLLO (fl. 550?), saint Glyn Cothi as specially celebrated at Rhayader.
DAFYDD ab IEUAN ab IORWERTH (d. 1503), bishop of St Asaph Glyn bear eloquent testimony to his hospitality.On the death of Michael Diacony he was promoted to the see and consecrated by archbishop Morton on 26 April 1500. He died three years later.
DAFYDD ab IFAN ab EINION (fl. 1440-1468), soldier and commander of Harlech Castle during the Wars of the Roses . Like so many young Welshmen of his day, he served with the English forces in France during the latter part of the Hundred Years' War - in Rouen, according to Dafydd Nanmor. That he did serve abroad is corroborated by Guto'r Glyn. When the English power in Normandy collapsed in 1450 Dafydd returned to England, possibly with the troops under his fellow-countryman Mathew Gough. In 1453 his name appears
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet used to travel the length and breadth of the country. His love poetry would certainly have been in demand, and it is perfectly possible that he earned his living as a professional poet like many of his contemporaries. His most important patrons in Ceredigion were the family of Glyn Aeron, a court which was a focus for innovative literary activity in this period. Dafydd composed an elegy to Angharad
DAFYDD ap SIANCYN (SIENCYN) ap DAFYDD ap y CRACH (fl. mid 15th century), Lancastrian partisan and poet Descended on his father's side from Marchudd (Peniarth MS 127 (57); Powys Fadog, vi, 221), and on his mother's from prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (Peniarth MS 127 (105), Peniarth MS 129 (128, 130); Dwnn, ii, 102, 132) - she was Margred, daughter of Rhys Gethin, partisan of Owain Glyn Dwr (on him see Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 66). His exploits during the Wars of the Roses are related in Sir John Wynn's
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor , following Le Neve, says he was outlawed, as a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, in 1406, and adds, on his own information, that he was 'a wealthy man and son of Evan ap David ap Griffith, a descendant of Caradoc ap Iestyn.' More questionable is the assertion that he was the man in whose house the famous Tripartite Indenture was signed. According to the chronicler Hall, the sole authority for the place of
DAFYDD GAM (d. 1415), Welsh warrior Bower, he had a part in the royal victory over Owain Glyn Dŵr at Pwll Melyn, near Usk, on 5 May 1405 (Scotichronicon, ed. W. Goodall, 1759, ii, 452). This date throws doubt upon the familiar story of his treacherous attack upon Owen at the parliament of Machynlleth in 1404; it has other doubtful features, and, in any case, is not heard of until the time of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (died 1667). That
DAFYDD GLYN DYFRDWY (fl. c. 1575), bard A native, perhaps, of Llansantffraid Glyn Dyfrdwy. Nothing is known of his life apart from what can be gleaned from cywyddau, etc., by him which survive in Llanstephan MS 169 (46, 50) NLW MS 3039B (225) and NLW MS 3050D (410), Peniarth MS 103 (48) and Peniarth MS 313 (82).
DAFYDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION ap HYWEL (d. before 1469), prominent figure in Cydewain and a generous patron of the 15th century bards He traced his ancestry to Elstan Glodrydd; one of his forebears migrated from Cefnllys to Mochdre, and his father settled at Newtown. His praises were sung by Lewis Glyn Cothi, Llawdden, and Guto'r Glyn, who laid stress on the wealth of his entertainment and on his generosity towards the bards. It appears that Hywel Swrdwal was his household bard, and that he died shortly before his patron. His
DAFYDD LLYFNI (fl. end of 16th century), poet NLW MS 1559B contains a carol of confession by him, and Llanstephan MS 125, two incomplete petition cywyddau, the one to the men of Anglesey and the other to the men of Llanllyfni and Harri Glyn.
DAFYDD Y COED (fl. 1380), poets Four substantial awdlau by him and smaller poems of a satirical nature have been preserved in the ' Red Book of Hergest.' He sang to Rhydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd of Glyn Aeron (fl. 1386-97), Hopkin ap Thomas of Ynysdawe (fl. 1360-90), and Gruffudd ap Llywelyn from Uwch Aeron. Moses Williams's estimate in his Repertorium Poeticum that he flourished about 1380 is confirmed. The above awdlau and the
DAVID ab OWEN (d. 1512), abbot and bishop scholarship and learning. See poems by Bedo Brwynllys, Dafydd Amharedudd ap Tudur, Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fychan (2), Guto'r Glyn, Hywel Rheinallt, Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn, Ieuan Deulwyn, Ieuan Llwyd Brydydd, Lewis Môn (2), Owain ap Llywelyn Moel, Rhys Pennardd, Tudur Aled (9), and William Egwad.

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