Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 was, at heart, more Welshman than Yorkist, although according to the bard Gutyn Owain he wore the collar and badge of king Edward. He died at Valle Crucis, c. 1493, and the abbot, Dafydd ap Ieuan who had looked after him so tenderly during the vicissitudes of old age and blindness, saw also to his obsequies and funeral feast.
GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist older than 1470. True, some of his own panegyrics can be dated 1462-5, and no doubt his love-poems belong to his early life, but the greater part of his work falls between 1470 and 1500. Eleven of his elegies can be definitely dated between 1476 and 1498, and all his poems to Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth, abbot of Llanegwestl (Valle Crucis), must needs belong to the years before Dafydd's election in
GWALCHMAI ap DAFYDD (fl. 16th century), harpist
GWALCHMAI ap MEILYR (fl. 1130-1180), court poet one of the earlier Gogynfeirdd. He sang to Owain Gwynedd (died 1170) to his brothers, to Dafydd and Rhodri his sons, and also to Madog ap Maredudd of Powys (died 1160). Other extant poems of his are his ' Gorhoffedd ' (vaunting poem), his ' Dream,' and his verses to Eve, his wife. The Hendreg. MS. and the 'Red Book of Hergest' also attribute to him an ode to God which according to The Myvyrian
GWEIRYDD ap RHYS (fl. c. 1170) - see WYNN
GWEIRYDD ap RHYS - see PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN
GWENLLIAN (d. 1136) Daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan, by Angharad, daughter of Owen ap Edwin. She married Gruffydd ap Rhys shortly after 1116, the most famous of her sons being the 'lord' Rhys ap Gruffydd. At the opening of the great Welsh uprising in 1136, she led an attack on the Norman fortress of Kidwelly, in her husband's absence, and was killed fighting outside the town, at a spot still known as Maes Gwenllian.
GWENWYNWYN (d. 1216), lord of Powys two provinces. Gwenwynwyn was survived by two infant sons - Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn and Madog.
GWERFUL MECHAIN (1462? - 1500), poetess All that is known of her is that she was the daughter of Hywel Fychan of Mechain in Powys, confirmation of which is to be found in a cywydd written by Dafydd Llwyd, who sent Llywelyn ap Gutun to her with an expression of his love. It is known that bits of her poems were still preserved in the memory of country folk as late as the 19th century, for both Ap Vychan and Sir Owen M. Edwards refer to
GWGON ap MEURIG (d. 871), king of Ceredigion, and the last of the line of Ceredig
GWGON BRYDYDD (fl. c. 1240), poet Nothing is known about him, but one example of his work remains, this being an elegy to prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth - Cwrtmawr MS 454B (554), NLW MS 4973B (47); Peniarth MS 240 (13); The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 1890, 235.

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