Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD ap TUDUR (fl. c. 1300), a poet
GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD FYCHAN (fl. 15th century), poet Fychan after reading the elegy of Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys on Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal. Two englynion, presumably composed by a son of his, Owain, are found in Peniarth MS 77 (319).
GRUFFUDD ap GRONW GETHIN (fl. c. 1380-1420), poet
GRUFFUDD ap GWRGENAU, poet Nothing remains of his work except (1) an elegiac awdl to prince Gruffudd ap Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd, who died (A.D. 1200) a monk in Aberconway abbey, and (2) a chain of englynion expressing the poet's grief at the loss of some of his friends. The awdl is quite unique among the elegies upon princes, in that it gives second place to the lineage, the exploits, and generosity of the subject. The
GRUFFUDD ap HUW ab OWAIN - see GUTUN OWAIN
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1063), king of Gwynedd and Powys, and after 1055 king of all Wales Son of Llywelyn ap Seisyll and Angharad, daughter of Maredudd ab Owain (died 999), king of Deheubarth. Not much information about his youth is available but some traditions have been preserved in the tales of Walter Map. As a youth he is said to have been slow and spiritless, but ambition later turned him into a man of valour and boldness and developed in him imagination and steadfastness of
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (d. 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh He was the son of Llywelyn ap Seisyll and Angharad merch Maredudd. Gruffudd was one of the most successful British princes of the Middle Ages and the Book of Llandaff claims that he was 'king of all Wales from end to end'. True to the medieval idea of a Wheel of Fate, however, Gruffudd's career ended in exile and violent death. Gruffudd's father Llywelyn came originally from Powys. He fought his
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN LLWYD - see GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD GAPLAN
GRUFFUDD ap MAREDUDD ap DAFYDD (fl. 1352-1382), poet 1382), and Syr Hywel y Fwyall (died c. 1381), and he could be most aptly called the household or family bard of the house of Penmynydd (see under Ednyfed Fychan). It is not improbable that he composed the exceptional ode inviting Owain Lawgoch (Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri) to recover his patrimony. He excels in his love poems. In one instance he makes for his beloved's home at Tref Lywarch on a
GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century Owen Tudor. It is, therefore, impossible to accept the reports that he was mortally wounded either at the battle of Wakefield, 1460, or at Mortimer's Cross, 1461. His praises were sung by Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Rhys Llwyd ap Rhys ap Rhicert, Gwilym ap Ieuan Hen, and Lewis Glyn Cothi. It is probable that the englynion attributed to him and Owen Dwnn and Griffith Benrhaw
GRUFFUDD ap TUDUR ap HYWEL (fl. 1500-1540), poet
GRUFFUDD BENRHAW, or PENRHAW (fl. 15th century), poet of whom it is known that he was a native of Brecknock and related to the family of Awbrey. A series of englynion, attributed to him, to Owain Dwnn, and to Gruffudd ap Nicolas, is extant [but see the article on Gruffudd ap Nicolas ]. Prose passages accompany these, and the whole relates to various incidents in the life of the poet, obviously an unruly person. It gives an account of his

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