Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD NANNAU (fl. c. 1460), poet A member apparently of the Nannau family. He was contemporary with Dafydd ap Maredudd ap Tudur, fl. 1460. Some examples of his work exist in manuscript, and these include an englyn written to the poet Gruffudd Phylip (NLW MS 643B (39b)), a cywydd to the sons of Ieuan Fychan of Pengwern (died c. 1458) (Cardiff MS. 83 (28b)); NLW MS 3049D (500)), and another to Dafydd Llwyd ap Gruffudd Deuddwr
GRUFFUDD, IFAN (c. 1655 - c. 1734), poet
GRUFFUDD, RHISIART (fl. c. 1569), poet
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family Son of Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan. He lived in Llewenni Fechan (later Llannerch), near S. Asaph. Some poems by him in British Museum manuscripts (Detholiad o waith Gruffydd ab Ieuan ab Llewelyn Vychan) were published in 1910, edited by J. C. Morrice, who gave some biographical details. Subsequently, i.e. in 1934, T. Allen Glenn gave, in The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (c. 1090 - 1137), prince of Deheubarth
GRUFFYDD, ELIS (fl. c. 1490-1552), 'the soldier of Calais,' copyist, translator, and chronicler collection of Welsh prose and verse. On 27 January 1529 he enlisted with the garrison at Calais, and it was there and in various other places in France, with the English forces, that he spent the rest of his life. There, too, he translated from the English a large compilation of medieval recipes (Cwrtmawr MS 1D), which he completed c. 1548, and wrote his Chronicle of the 'history' of the world from the
GRUFFYDD, OWEN (c. 1643 - 1730), poet and antiquary
GRYFFYTH, JASPER (d. 1614), cleric, warden of Ruthin hospital, chaplain to archbishop Bancroft, collector of manuscripts fragments in Latin and Welsh (B.M. MS. Cotton, Jul. C., iii). Some of the most important Welsh manuscripts passed through his hands, e.g. 'The Black Book of Carmarthen,' 'The White Book of Rhydderch,' Peniarth MS 44 and Peniarth MS 53, the 'Dingestow Brut' (NLW MS 5266B), the 'Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan' (Peniarth MS 17), and two manuscripts of the Laws of Howel (Harleian 4353 and Cotton Cleopatra B.V
GUTO'R GLYN (fl. second half of the 15th century), bard if he is the author of the cywyddau to Sir Richard Gethin and Mathau Goch then it must be presumed that he started to write a little earlier, i.e. c. 1432-5. Guto'r Glyn was, according to Tudur Aled, the best bard for composing poems to men; the bard himself says, 'ac erioed prydydd gŵr wyf.' He knew how to praise; he also knew how to satirize as is shown by his biting references to Dafydd ab
GUTUN GOCH BRYDYDD (fl. c. 1550?), poet
GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist
GWEN ferch ELLIS (c. 1552 - 1594), first victim of execution for witchcraft in Wales Gwen ferch Ellis was born about 1552 in Llandyrnog parish, Denbighshire. Her parents' identities are not recorded - only her father's forename, Ellis, is indicated by the Welsh surname prefix 'ferch', meaning 'daughter of". The historic record shows that she had a sister, Elizabeth ferch Ellis (d. c.1579), and an uncle, Harry ap Roger, with whom she was sent to live in Yale at the age of five or

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