Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MADOG ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1294), rebel 1277 he was the recipient of two substantial monetary 'gifts' from the king's 'wardrobe,' his claim to Meirionydd being tacitly recognized by the Crown; in 1278 he actually sued Llywelyn ap Gruffydd before the king's justices for the recovery of the cantref. After 1282 he appears to have returned to Wales and to have received lands in Anglesey. His kinship with the old reigning house of Aberffraw (he
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn : colonel in the Parliamentary army, sheriff in 1648-9 (and before that in 1643), member of parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1654-5; he held many important offices in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire. His influence was great and far-reaching; he managed to keep the cleric John Gethin, married to his sister Dorothy, in the living of Llangybi after losing that of Criccieth under the Propagation Act of 1650; he
MAELGWN ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1173), prince of Anglesey Son of Owain Gwynedd by Gwladus, daughter of Llywarch ap Trahaearn, uterine brother of Iorwerth Drwyndwn, and uncle of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In the partition of his father's dominions he received Anglesey, but was driven out of the island in 1173 by his half-brother, Dafydd. He fled to Ireland, returned later in the year, and was made a prisoner. His subsequent fate is unknown.
MAELGWN GWYNEDD (d. c. 547), king of Gwynedd and monk Son of Cadwallon Lawhir and great-grandson of Cunedda Wledig, he ruled over Venedotia (Gwynedd) in the second quarter of the 6th century. His kingdom seems to have comprised most of north-west Wales, including Anglesey, while tradition credits him with a favourite stronghold at Degannwy on the Creuddyn peninsula. As a fifth and last ruler arraigned by Gildas for his misdeeds, he is addressed as
MALO (fl. 6th century), saint churches of S. Maughans and Llanfaenor in Monmouthshire and Llanfechell in Anglesey. 15 November is usually quoted as his feast-day.
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa , Anglesey. Ellin Maurice married (1) John Owen, secretary to Sir Francis Walsingham, and son of Owen ap Robert, Bodsilin, Caernarfonshire, and (2) Sir Francis Eure (died 1621), chief justice of North Wales. By her first husband she was the mother of three sons and five daughters. The three sons were colonel Sir John Owen (died 1666), colonel WILLIAM OWEN (died October 1670, buried at Selattyn, 11 October
MAURICE, HENRY (1647 - 1691), cleric and author if the age recorded (44) on his memorial tablet in Jesus College chapel at Oxford is correct, he was born in 1647, but Foster records his age at matriculation 'at 16,' in a year which would place his birth in 1648. He was the son of Thomas Maurice, B.D., perpetual curate of Llangristiolus, Anglesey, and his wife Sidney, daughter of Henry Perri - he was, therefore, of the Tudor of Penmynydd clan
MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician was the eldest son of Moris ap Elise (died 1575) of Clenennau, a member of an old Caernarvonshire family which, in the course of the last century had accumulated the most extensive and compact freehold estate in south Caernarvonshire, centred on the manor house of Clenennau (built c. 1550) and extending into Anglesey and Merioneth. Maurice, the first of the family to adopt the English form of
MEILYR BRYDYDD (fl. c . 1100-1137), chief court-poet to Gruffudd ap Cynan at Aberffraw. He is considered the earliest of the 'Gogynfeirdd.' Meilyr, and Gwalchmai (his son), and his grand-children, appear to be the likeliest known instance in Wales of a line of hereditary poets, as was usual in Ireland, holding land in return for their eulogies of a particular line of rulers. Trefeilyr and Trewalchmai remain as place-names in Anglesey. Sir J. Morris
MENDS, CHRISTOPHER (1724? - 1799), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Christopher supervised the society at Carmarthen and William that at Laugharne. According to a Moravian record (Y Cymmrodor, xlv, 34), William also 'dissented' - this indeed is implied by the registration of the house. Nothing further is known of William, but Christopher died at Plymouth, 5 April 1799; there is an autobiography in the Evangelical Magazine, 1799, 397. In Transactions of the Anglesey
MERFYN FRYCH (d. 844), king of Gwynedd son of Gwriad, probably a Manx chieftain and a reputed descendant of Llywarch Hen, by Ethyllt, a princess of Gwynedd. On the death, in 825, of Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog, his mother's uncle, he became king in Anglesey, and later, on the death of Hywel ap Caradog, appears to have acquired the kingship of the adjacent mainland cantrefs. Thus were united the inheritances of the last direct descendants
MEYRICK family Bodorgan, Meyrick's debts. RICHARD MEYRICK III (died 1644) was the first of the family to be appointed sheriff of Anglesey, and that not until 1614. Indeed, the Meyricks had very little lustre until the estate passed into the hands of OWEN MEYRICK I (1682 - 1760), second son of WILLIAM MEYRICK (1644 - 1717), and grandson of RICHARD MEYRICK IV (died 1669). He set the estate on a strong foundation, looked after it

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