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13 - 24 of 37 for "Glyndŵr"

  • IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION (fl. c. 1450) Baglan, poet and gentleman Owain Glyndwr, his escape to Anglesey, and his return from there on payment of a fine, is fictitious.
  • IOLO GOCH (c. 1325 - c. 1400), poet Glyndŵr. Towards the end of his career, in 1394, he composed an advice poem to Sir Roger Mortimer which demonstrates detailed knowledge about the political situation in Britain and Ireland. His only surviving poem to a patron from south Wales is his elegy to Sir Rhys ap Gruffudd which describes his funeral in Carmarthen in 1356, and it was probably that powerful nobleman who encouraged him to address a
  • IOLO GOCH (c. 1320 - c. 1398), poet -90); panegyric upon Sir Roger Mortimer, earl of March (and earl of Denbigh), composed between 1395 and 1398; and an awdl calling down blessings on the court of Hywel Cyffin, dean of St Asaph from 1385 to 1397. There are three cywyddau which he sang to Owain Glyndŵr, but the last of these cannot very well have been written later than 1386. Accordingly Iolo belonged entirely to the 14th century, and
  • JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer in both Welsh and English, and he was in demand not only throughout Wales but also in Welsh centres in England. He preached in London during World War I, in Liverpool cathedral in 1927, and he had been invited to deliver a Welsh sermon in St. Paul's cathedral, London, in 1928. His most popular lectures were those on Robert Owen, Twm o'r Nant, Mynyddog, Ceiriog, Y Bardd Cwsg, Owain Glyndŵr and Ann
  • JONES, ELEN ROGER (1908 - 1999), actress and teacher 'Hannah Hallelujah'. But Elen could turn her hand to any genre, and in 1983 she played the part of Lady Grey in the film Owain Glyndwr on S4C. She also starred in English series, including District Nurse, with the actress Nerys Hughes. Nerys was very generous in her praise towards Elen, noting her professionalism instantly, and the fact that she never forgot her lines. She was described by John Hefin
  • JONES, JOHN (Eos Bradwen; 1831 - 1899), musician, etc. at St Asaph cathedral where he laboured for fifteen years. He won many prizes for poems at various eisteddfodau. At the Llandudno eisteddfod, 1864, he won the prize for the libretto of a cantata on the subject of 'The Prodigal Son.' During the same year he composed a cantata, 'Owain Glyndwr,' which remained popular for some years. His solo 'Bugeiles y Wyddfa' was popular for many years. At an
  • JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer
  • MICHAEL, GLYNDWR ('Major William Martin, RN'; 1909 - 1943), 'the man who never was' Glyndwr Michael was born 4 January 1909 at 136 Commercial Street, Aberbargoed, Monmouthshire. His mother was Sarah Ann Chadwick and his father, Thomas Michael, died 1925, was a colliery haulier. The family moved frequently, finally to Penygraig and Trealaw in the Rhondda valley. After his father's death, Glyndwr, himself a chronic invalid and emotionally unstable, lived with his mother (his
  • MORGAN, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director in establishing a small trading estate in Hirwaun. In 1963 he founded Cronfa Glyndwr yr Ysgolion Cymreig, of which he was the first president. Its aim was to give financial help to parents and schools to enable children to attend Welsh schools set up by the parents themselves. The most important aspect of the trust was creating and maintaining nursery schools. Because of the reluctance of local
  • MORTIMER family Wigmore, died February 1359/60. During the remainder of the 14th century the family does not appear to have played any outstanding part in Welsh affairs. They, however, became connected with the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr at the beginning of the next century. When Roger de Mortimer, 4th earl of March, died in 1398, his son, EDMUND, was still a minor, and consequently Roger's brother, also called EDMUND
  • MORTIMER, ROGER de (4th earl of March, 4th earl of Ulster), (1374 - 1398) Richard, and the disappointment when this expectation was thwarted may well have been one of the causes of the Glyndŵr rebellion. Once more, Owain Glyndŵr's Penmynydd supporters had no quarrel with a Mortimer, and no cause to love a family which had usurped Mortimer 'rights.' Indeed, many in Wales believed (E.H.R., xxxii, 560; Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 28, 53, 69) that Richard II was still alive.
  • OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales'