Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD (d. c. 1381) Son of Gruffydd ap Hywel (from Collwyn), of Bron-y-Foel in the township of Ystumllyn and the parish of Ynyscynhaiarn, Eifionydd, by Angharad, daughter of Tegwared y Bais Wen. His paternal grandmother was a grand-daughter of Ednyfed Fychan. A younger son, he acquired fame in the French Wars of Edward III. The tradition that he won his spurs at Poitiers is not, however, confirmed by the evidence
IEUAN FYCHAN ap IEUAN ab ADDA (d. c. 1458), poet An ancestor of the family associated with Mostyn Hall, Flintshire. Ieuan Fychan lived at Pengwern, Denbighshire, before he married Angharad, heiress of Mostyn. Lord Mostyn and T. A. Glenn, in their History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (London, 1925), give some details about the career of Ieuan Fychan; e.g. he was an esquire in the retinue of Thomas Fitz Alan, earl of Arundel and lord of
IFOR HAEL, patron of bards mother was Angharad, daughter of Morgan ap Meredudd, lord of Tredegar (the Tredegar mentioned above). Her second husband was Dafydd ap Llywelyn, of Rhydodyn; see Peniarth MS 176 (399) where Morgan ap Dafydd is described as 'vnvam ac ifor hael' (uterine brother of Ifor Hael). Angharad's father died c. 1331 (J. H. Davies, in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907, 68); in an
JAMES, ANGHARAD (fl. 1680?-1730?), poet She lived at Y Parlwr, Penanmaen, Dolwyddelan. Some particulars concerning her are given by Owen Thomas in the first chapter of Cofiant John Jones, Tal-y-Sarn; he says that she was the daughter of James Davies and Angharad Humphreys, Gelli Ffrydau, Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, that she received a good education, in the course of which she learned Latin, was proficient as a harpist, was a poet, and
JOAN (d. 1237), princess and diplomat that lies in situ at St Mary's church, Beaumaris. Dafydd is the only firmly established child of Joan. The other of Llywelyn's children attributed to her include Helen, Margaret, Gwladus Ddu, Angharad and Susanna. Throughout her thirty-year reign, Joan played a fundamental role in thirteenth-century Anglo-Welsh relations. That she had the authority to travel across borders to parlay with successive
JONES family Llwyn-rhys, added at right angles to the house to serve, it is said, as the meeting house. Preaching continued there until 19 October 1735. The house became an irreparable ruin about 1918. John Jones (1640? - 1722) traced his descent, through his father, John ap Ieuan Lloyd, from the Clements, lords of Caron, and through his mother, Angharad, daughter of Ieuan ap Thomas, from Rhydderch of Glyn Aeron (Golden Grove
JONES, JOHN (1796 - 1857), Calvinistic Methodist minister, a celebrated and unusually forceful preacher ministry. He died 16 August 1857, and was buried at Llanllyfni, where his grave is marked by a monument. See also the article on his great-grandmother Angharad James.
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician refering to those whom he knew and several of Newton's MSS. to the 3rd Earl Macclesfield, who refused Morris further access to them. The earl talked of giving them to the British Museum, but many of these remained in the earl's home, Shirburn Castle. Angharad Llwyd tells us that she too offered to complete the catalogue but was told that the manuscripts ' were not worth the trouble.' But in 1899 many
LLOYD, JOHN (1733 - 1793), cleric and antiquary was Angharad Llwyd, and another, Llewelyn (1770 - 1841) was rector of Nannerch (Thomas, op. cit., ii, 422) from 1810 till 184 1. John Lloyd was reckoned something of a scholar in his day. He was a member of the somewhat nebulous committee which was concerned with the preparation of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales; he was a friend of Philip Yorke's; Warrington acknowledged Lloyd's help in his
LLWYD, ANGHARAD (1780 - 1866), antiquary Born 15 April 1780 at Caerwys, Flintshire, and died at Ty'n y Rhyl, Rhyl, 16 October 1866. Her father was John Lloyd (1733 - 1793), rector of Caerwys. Angharad was a member of the London Cymmrodorion Society and the recipient of several gold and silver medals awarded at eisteddfodau for prize winning essays. In the Welshpool eisteddfod of 1824 she obtained the second prize for an essay entitled
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy published Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod (Chester 1804) and Poems, Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British (Chester, 1804). In 1837 The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, The Bard of Snowdon, comprising Beaumaris Bay … with a Portrait and a Memoir of the Author was published. He knew Angharad Llwyd, which probably accounts for the fact that some of his MSS. are in her collection (see Kinmel Park
LLYWELYN ap SEISYLL (d. 1023), king of Deheubarth and Gwynedd Nothing is known of his father, but his mother, Prawst, was, according to late pedigrees, the daughter of Elisedd, a younger son of Anarawd ap Rhodri Mawr. Since he himself married Angharad, daughter of Maredudd ab Owain ap Hywel Dda, he had distant claims to succession in both Deheubarth and Gwynedd, which in the circumstances of the time could be translated into reality by a leader of force and

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