Dictionary of Welsh Biography

IOAN ap IAGO - see JAMES, JOHN
IOAN ap IOAN - see WILLIAMS, JOHN
IOLO GOCH (c. 1320 - c. 1398), poet A native of the Vale of Clwyd, son of Ithel Goch ap Cynwrig ap Iorwerth Ddu ap Cynwrig Ddewis Herod ap Cywryd. According to Hugh de Beckele's Extent of Denbigh (1334), Ithel Goch rented a small portion of the family's ancient patrimony in the township of Llewenni where he possessed a dwelling house. He also rented from the lord small parcels of land in Llechryd and Berain. Of the works attributed
IOLO GOCH (c. 1325 - c. 1400), poet poem to king Edward III. But a poem in the form of a dialogue between his body and his soul maps out a bardic circuit to the south-west of the country naming a number of patrons there, including the abbots of Whitland and Strata Florida and Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd. Iolo Goch was one of a group of poets who were the first to employ the cywydd metre, and his elegy to Dafydd ap Gwilym, about 1350
IORWERTH ap BLEDDYN (d. 1111), prince of Powys Son of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, and a co-ruler of Powys at the close of the 11th cent. As vassal of Robert of Montgomery he was involved in the rebellion of 1102. His desertion caused the collapse of the rising, and when he did not receive the whole of the Montgomery inheritance in Wales, as he had hoped, he became troublesome to the Crown, and was imprisoned in 1103. Released in 1110 to deal with his
IORWERTH ap MADOG (fl. 1240?-1268?), jurist repeatedly mentioned in various manuscripts of the ' Venedotian Code ' of the Welsh Laws, is more specifically designated in one of these as ' Iorwerth ap Madog ap Rhahawd '; this would make him a brother of the poet Einion ap Madog (fl. c. 1237) - the identification is accepted by Sir John Lloyd, A History of Wales, 355. This would make him a descendant of the 9th century Cilmin Droed-ddu, and a
IORWERTH DRWYNDWN (d. c. 1174), prince of Gwynedd Elder son of Owain Gwynedd by Gwladus, daughter of Llywarch ap Trahaearn. He married a princess of Powys, namely Marared, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd, by whom he had one son, the future Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In the partition of his father's territories he received Arfon and probably Nanconwy. Shortly afterwards he disappears from view, probably dying about the time of the usurpation of power in
IORWERTH FYCHAN ap IORWERTH ap ROTPERT (fl. c. 1300), poet
IORWERTH FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1480-1527), bard of S. Bride's Major, Glamorganshire. The cywyddau written in the course of a bardic controversy with Rhisiart ap Rhys Brydydd in John Stradling's house in Merthyr Mawr prove that Rhisiart ap Rhys Brydydd was Iorwerth Fynglwyd's bardic teacher. Over fifty of his compositions survive in manuscripts and there was much transcribing of them, not only by Glamorgan copyists but by scribes in North Wales
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon . On both sides, he was of the family which, in more modern times, has borne the surname Mostyn; his father, Rhotpert ap Iorwerth ap Rhirid, had a brother, Madog, otherwise known as ' Matthew de Englefield,' who was bishop of Bangor 1327-57 (Browne Willis, Bangor, 74-5; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 99); his mother, Adles, was cousin to Dafydd ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph. Ithel is styled B.C.L. in one record
JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet adult education, and ' Y Bwthyn ' became the haunt of poets and writers. He was one of the masters of cerdd dafod, winning among many other prizes at the national eisteddfod the crown in Swansea, 1926 (for ' Rhigymau'r ffordd fawr'), and the chair four times - Liverpool, 1929 ('Dafydd ap Gwilym'); Llanelli, 1930 ('Y Galilead'); Bangor, 1943 ('Cymylau amser'); and Bridgend, 1948 ('Yr Alltud'). He was
JAMES, EVAN (Ieuan ap Iago, Iago ap Ieuan; 1809 - 1878), author of the words of 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau'

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