Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, Griffith ap Tudor ap Madog ap Iarddur; her possessions are said to have formed part of the estates of Iarddur, supposed founder of one of the so-called 'fifteen tribes', who had received them as part of a grant to him of the commote of Arllechwedd Uchaf by Llywelyn the Great. No record evidence exists of such a grant. The surveys of Anglesey and Caernarvon of 1352 prove the existence of Iarddur, but
GRUFFYDD ap MADOG (d. 1191) son of Madog ap Maredudd by Susanna, daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan, and the founder of the principal ruling family of northern Powys during the 13th century. When the province was divided into two spheres of influence on the death of Madog ap Maredudd in 1160, territories north of the Rhaeadr were subject to further subdivision among Gruffydd and his brothers - see Owain Fychan and Owain
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (d. 1201), prince of Deheubarth eldest son of Rhys ap Gruffydd and Gwenllian, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd. Founder of the senior line of the 'lord' Rhys's descendants, he was the destined heir to the principal lands of his father in Ystrad Tywi, and was so recognized by the English authorities. The leading events of his short career as lord of Dinefwr were in the main determined by the combined ambitions of his opponents
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
GWENWYNWYN (d. 1216), lord of Powys Wenwynwyn, an area very broadly speaking co-extensive with the modern county of Montgomery; this was to distinguish it from the later Denbighshire portion of ancient Powys, or Powys Fadog - so-called after Gwenwynwyn's second cousin, Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor I, who came into sole possession of that region at about this time. Apart from having left a permanent stamp on the nomenclature of central Wales
GWERFUL FERCH MADOG - see GWERFUL MECHAIN
HUW ap DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN ap MADOG (fl. c. 1526-1580), poet
HUW ap RICHARD ap SION ap MADOG - see HUW BODWRDA
HUW BODWRDA (fl. 1566) Bodwrda,, gentleman, bard, and patron of bards
HUW CAE LLWYD (fl. 1431-1504), poet , lie the poets Llawdden, Madog Benfras, and Siôn Ceri
HUW LLWYD ap DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN ap MADOG - see HUW ap DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN ap MADOG
HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD ap IORWERTH (fl. c. 1300-1340) not known, but he may have been the Anglesey man of the same name who swore fealty to the Black Prince in 1343 (Archæologia Cambrensis, supplement 1877, clii). The survey of Anglesey in 1352 (Rec. Caern., 51) shows that Gwely Metusalem ap Hwfa ap Cynddelw in the commote of Llifon was in the possession of Hywel's nephews - Madog ap Gruffydd Fychan and Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ap Gruffydd - 'et alii'; the

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