Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD ap OWAIN - see OWAIN, Sir DAFYDD
DAFYDD ap SIANCYN (SIENCYN) ap DAFYDD ap y CRACH (fl. mid 15th century), Lancastrian partisan and poet Descended on his father's side from Marchudd (Peniarth MS 127 (57); Powys Fadog, vi, 221), and on his mother's from prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (Peniarth MS 127 (105), Peniarth MS 129 (128, 130); Dwnn, ii, 102, 132) - she was Margred, daughter of Rhys Gethin, partisan of Owain Glyn Dwr (on him see Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 66). His exploits during the Wars of the Roses are related in Sir John Wynn's
DAFYDD BENFRAS (fl. 1230-1260), poet His father's name was Llywarch, and his home was in Anglesey. He wrote eulogies to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, and an elegy upon his death in 1240. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1244) and Dafydd ap Llywelyn (1246) were also the subjects of elegies by Dafydd Benfras. Soon after Llywelyn ap Gruffydd had started on his campaign against his brother Owain in 1255 and against the English of the Middle Country in
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor , following Le Neve, says he was outlawed, as a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, in 1406, and adds, on his own information, that he was 'a wealthy man and son of Evan ap David ap Griffith, a descendant of Caradoc ap Iestyn.' More questionable is the assertion that he was the man in whose house the famous Tripartite Indenture was signed. According to the chronicler Hall, the sole authority for the place of
DAFYDD GAM (d. 1415), Welsh warrior Bower, he had a part in the royal victory over Owain Glyn Dŵr at Pwll Melyn, near Usk, on 5 May 1405 (Scotichronicon, ed. W. Goodall, 1759, ii, 452). This date throws doubt upon the familiar story of his treacherous attack upon Owen at the parliament of Machynlleth in 1404; it has other doubtful features, and, in any case, is not heard of until the time of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (died 1667). That
DAFYDD, OWEN (1751 - 1814?), rustic poet and ballad-writer at the age of 62, but a writer in Y Geninen, March 1906, 43, says that he died in 1816 at the age of 65. It seems probable that he is the ' Owain William, Gurnos Mill ', whose burial is recorded in the church register of Ystradgynlais 26 February 1814. Several of his ballads were published, e.g. the ballad of the Brynmorgan Explosion (Voss, Swansea, 1812). But his best-known poem is the one on the
DANIEL ap LLOSGWRN MEW, poet An elegiac awdl on Owain Gwynedd is attributed to him in Hendreg. MS. 21ab and The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 193a. The 'Red Book of Hergest,' col. 1401, attributes to him an elegy in the form of a chain of englynion on Gruffudd ap Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1200), which appears in Hendreg. MS. 113b and in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 204b, as the work of Llywarch ab Llywelyn
DAVID ab OWEN (d. 1512), abbot and bishop scholarship and learning. See poems by Bedo Brwynllys, Dafydd Amharedudd ap Tudur, Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fychan (2), Guto'r Glyn, Hywel Rheinallt, Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn, Ieuan Deulwyn, Ieuan Llwyd Brydydd, Lewis Môn (2), Owain ap Llywelyn Moel, Rhys Pennardd, Tudur Aled (9), and William Egwad.
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet the founders of the local literary society, Cymdeithas Owain Cyfeiliog. Nonetheless, it was the Brynaman area which was the location and subject of the series of poems which brought him to national prominence as a poet in 1970, when he won the Crown of the National Eisteddfod in his native valley, in Ammanford; Brynaman was also the setting of his first volume, Darluniau ar Gynfas ('Paintings on
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister minister at Ystradyfodwg. She had a sister, Ann, who became the mother of D. W. Davies, a medical man at Llantrisant, and thus the grandmother of NAUNTON WINGFIELD DAVIES (1852 - 1925 - see Who's Who in Wales, 1921, and Western Mail, 14 February 1925), also a medical man (F.R.C.S.), but better known as a playwright and a promoter of the drama in South Wales - consult index to O. Llew Owain, Hanes y
DAVIES, HUGH EMYR (1878 - 1950), minister (Presb.) and poet he gained prominence. He won a chair at Pwllheli when he was 16 years old, and subsequently won 22 bardic chairs. He mastered the cynganeddion, but it was in the free metres that he excelled. His collected works were published in 1907 under the title Llwyn Hudol. His pryddest to ' Branwen ferch Llŷr ' won the crown at the Caernarfon national eisteddfod (1906); and his poem, ' Owain Glyndŵr ' won
DAVIES, JOHN CADVAN (Cadvan; 1846 - 1923), Wesleyan minister , 1927. He was a successful writer of 'heroic' verse and won prizes with 'Madog ab Owain Gwynedd' (national eisteddfod, Liverpool, 1884), 'Cystenin Fawr' (Caernarvon, 1886), 'John Penri' (London, 1887), and there were many other successes to his credit. He was prominent in the eisteddfod as an adjudicator and conductor, and in 1923 became archdruid. He was an assiduous competitor and a formidable

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