Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1203), king of Gwynedd , Dafydd had a son, Owain, and a daughter. Mother and son succeeded to Hales, which thus acquired its name of ' Halesowen.' Ellesmere, on the other hand, was resumed by the Crown, though it was not long ere it had once more a Welsh lord in Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In 1212, when John and Llywelyn were at odds, there was an attempt to put Owain forward as prince in his father's room in Eastern Gwynedd. But
DAFYDD ap BLEDDYN (d. 1346), bishop , enabling Clement VI to provide John Trevor I on 26 June to the vacant see (Cal. Papal Lett., iii, 235; Petitions i, 48).
DAFYDD ap DAFYDD LLWYD (1549), poet and member of the landed family ] Caereinion (1599), Siôn Huws of Maes y Pandy, near Tal-y-llyn, and Doctor [ David ] Powel, bardic controversies (ymrysonau) between himself and Roger Cyffin, and, also, with Lewys Dwnn, and religious and moral poems. Bedo Hafesp composed an elegy on him (Bodewryd MS 1D (289)). NLW MS 5270B (327) contains an englyn presumably by his son John.
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet Thomas Parry in 1952 that it was possible to get a clear view of the extent of his poetic achievement.
DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1246), prince The only son of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth by his wife Joan, natural daughter of king John. As such, he was regarded from his birth, about 1208, as the heir to the strong principality which his father was building up. As early as 1220, the king gave his sanction to the assumption and took the prince and his mother under the protection of the Crown. In 1222, the support of Honorius III was added; four
DAFYDD AP MAREDUDD GLAIS, murderer, civic official, scribe and translator Roubury and Gruffydd Prouth, for Thomas Kirkham, abbot of the monastery of Vale Royal in Cheshire, in respect of a fine. By 1440-41 he had murdered Gruffydd Prouth and Gruffydd's son Dafydd Fychan. His father, Maredudd, Thomas Glais and John Roubury were all accused of being associated with him. Dafydd was pardoned in return for a £40 fine, but the murder led to a feud with the Prouth family, as a
DAFYDD ap MAREDUDD GLAIS (fl. 1429-1468), cleric, murderer, civic official, and translator of a chronicle of the kings of England into Welsh He was the son of Maredudd Glais, a man who filled a number of municipal offices in Aberystwyth and Llanbadarn between 1411 and 1458. The date of Dafydd's birth is not known and the earliest mention of him in the records is as a pledge with John Robury and Griffith Prouth for Thomas Kirkham, abbot of Vale Royal, in respect of a fine in 1429. The three are described as clerics, and they
DAFYDD ap PHYLIP ap RHYS Syr (fl. c. 1500-1540), poet (probably in holy orders) who was from the parish of Llangyfelach, near Swansea, according to Iolo Morganwg (NLW MSS 13062B (467)). Only one of his poems remains, a cywydd in praise of Sir Rhys ap Thomas.
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 COWPER (GOWPER) (fl. c. 1500), poet His poems are preserved in Peniarth MS 76, Peniarth MS 312, Llanstephan MS 118, Cardiff MS. 7, Cardiff MS. 49, B.M. Add. MS. 14997, and NLW MS 728D. Among them is a cywydd which John Puleston the elder ('Sion pilstwn hen') of Bersham caused to be written to John, abbot of Valle Crucis, and an englyn to the steeple of Wrexham church, 1507.
DAFYDD DDU ATHRO HIRADDUG (fl. before 1400), a poet The man whose name is associated with the first bardic grammar (llyfr cerddwriaeth) which we have, i.e. a work dealing with the art of bardism and verse, and containing also an abridgement of the Latin grammar which was used in schools in the Middle Ages. Scarcely anything of him is known, but as Moel Hiraddug is the name of a hill near Rhuddlan, perhaps Thomas Wiliems is right when he says, in
DAFYDD FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1500-1550), poet Son of a poet and a native, presumably, of South Wales. Nothing is known of his life, but some of his poetry remains in manuscript. This includes englynion in praise of Gruffudd Dwnn's mansion in Ystrad Merthyr (Llanstephan MS 40 (60)), a cywydd written to Sir Harry ap Sir Thomas Johns of Abermarlais (Llanstephan MS 30 (444)), and another to Sir John Perrot (see the article on the family) of

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