Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), Maelgwn ap Rhys and his nephew, Rhys Ieuanc, invaded them in 1215. When hostilities ended with the Peace of Worcester (March 1218) William Marshal, in the interest of the pacification of the country, willingly allowed Llywelyn ap Iorwerth to have the custody of the royal castles of Cardigan and Carmarthen, but he retained Caerleon which he had wrested from Morgan ap Hywel in 1217. He was a benefactor of
MATHIAS family Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey Nantlle Vale, Caernarvonshire (see under William Griffith, 1719 - 1782, John Morgan, 1743 - 1801, and Edward Oliver); he remained there till the middle of 1776. In 1776-80 he 'laboured' (though he was never in the Brethren's orders) at Devonport, in 1780-2 at Kingswood, and in 1782-8 in the settlement at Ockbrook, near Derby (once more keeping the shop). He returned to North Wales in May 1788, this time
MATTHEWS, EDWARD (1813 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Richard (Thomas Richard) appeared in 1863, and he was joint author of Cofiant J. Harris Jones John Harris Jones, 1886. He edited two volumes of sermons by Morgan Howells in 1858 and 1869, and two volumes of Thomas Richards's sermons (1866-7). He was a frequent contributor to Y Traethodydd, Y Drysorfa, and Y Cylchgrawn, and a volume containing his articles to these periodicals was published under the
MEREDITH, THOMAS (fl. 1747-1770), Methodist exhorter, and Antinomian selected portions of the works of William Erbury and Morgan Llwyd, etc., collected by him, were published under the title A Scourge for the Assirian the great Oppressor (W. Laplain, Salop). His views are to be found in a book, An Illustration of Several Texts of Scripture, which includes several of his letters and which was published posthumously in 1770 from the same press. There is a mystical element
MEURIG (fl. 1210), poet, and treasurer of Llandaff render the entry 'Morus Morgan' in Enw F. superfluous. In the Iolo MSS., pp. 622, 638, this Meurig is said to have been the author of ' Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd ' (probably the prototype of the work of this name written in 1445 by Gwilym Tew, and preserved in Hengwrt MS. 34), 'A History of the whole Isle of Britain,' 'Book of Proverbs,' 'Rules of Welsh Poetry,' 'Welsh Theology,' and a 'Welsh translation of
MICHAEL, DAVID (Dewi Afan; 1842 - 1913), poet Ruth a Naomi … A Cantata (Cwmafan, 1876) and Gwaredigaeth Pedr o'r Carchar (3rd ed., Cwmafan, 1885; 1st ed., 1879; 2nd ed., 1880). He also published, with Llewelyn Griffiths (Glan Afan), two anthologies of contemporary poetry under the titles of Blodeu'r Beirdd (Cwmafan, 1871), and Oriel y Beirdd (Cwmafan, 1882). He died 11 August 1913, leaving one daughter and four sons. Thomas Morgan (Afanwyson
MORGAN (fl. 1294), rebel He was the leader of the Glamorgan insurgents during the rising of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294-5. Owing to personal grievances against the De Clares, he claimed to be at war only against the lords of Glamorgan. He may, therefore, have been Morgan ap Maredudd, a direct descendant of Rhydderch ap Iestyn; his father, Maredudd, the last native lord of Caerleon, had been deprived twenty years earlier by
MORGAN family Llantarnam, The importance of this branch of the Morgans of Pen-coyd, claiming descent from Cadifor Fawr, begins when WILLIAM MORGAN (died 1582), of the Grange of Cefn Vynoch, acquired, in 1561, the dissolved abbey of Llantarnam, with its appurtenant manors of Wentwood and Bryngwyn, from William, earl of Pembroke (died 1570), to whom it had been granted by Elizabeth in 1559. A new mansion was built from the
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, from Bledri was LLYWELYN AB IFOR, lord of S. Clears and Gwynfe, who married Angharad, the daughter and sole heir of Sir Morgan ap Maredydd, said to be descended from the Welsh lords of Caerleon and, in her right, acquired the estates of Tredegar and Cyfoeth Feredydd. Of this union there were three children, MORGAN of Tredegar and S. Clears, Ifor Hael, the ancestor of the branch of the family at Gwern
MORGAN ab IOAN RHUS - see RHYS, MORGAN JOHN
MORGAN ab OWAIN Lord of Caerleon - see MORGAN ap HYWEL
MORGAN, JOHN (d. 1504), clerk of parliament, and bishop Some doubt exists concerning Morgan's ancestry. One pedigree (Peniarth MS 131, 251) traces his descent from Griffith Dwnn of Croesallgwn, Kidwelly, and this seems to be confirmed by the poet Ieuan Deulwyn's reference to his being 'of the blood of the Dwn' (Gwaith Ieuan Deulwyn, p. 50). But he is more usually thought to have been a brother to the lawyer, Trahaearn Morgan of Muddlescombe, Kidwelly

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