Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD ap IORWERTH (fl. c. 1300-1340) makes him the son of Gruffydd ap Ednyfed Fychan (ii, 16), thus identifying him with the Hywel ap Gruffydd who, as a partisan of Edward I, was drowned in the Menai Straits in 1282; on this identification, Hywel y Pedolau would be the ancestor of the Sir Gruffydd ap Rhys of South Wales whose descendants were later settled at Abermarlais in Carmarthenshire (see Ednyfed Fychan, Sir Gruffydd Llwyd, and Sir
HYWEL ap IEUAF (d. 985), king of Gwynedd
HYWEL ap IEUAN ab EDNYFED (fl. end of 14th and beginning of 15th century) - see WYNN
HYWEL ap IORWERTH ab OWAIN Lord of Caerleon - see MORGAN ap HYWEL
HYWEL ap LLYWELYN ap MAREDUDD (fl. c. 1500?), poet
HYWEL ap MAREDUDD ap CARADOG ap IESTYN - see MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN
HYWEL ap RHEINALLT (fl. c. 1471-1494), poet him by Llywelyn ap Gutun in that poet's ymryson with Lewys Môn (Llanstephan MS 122 (620)). No details regarding his life are known, but he was obviously a native of some part of North Wales.
HYWEL ap RHODRI MOLWYNOG (d. 825), king of Gwynedd
HYWEL BANGOR (fl. 1540), an itinerant bard englynion in Llanstephan MS 41, but the relationship between the date and the text is not clear. If Peniarth MS 267 (54) is correct in attributing to him an englyn to the son of Dafydd ab Edmwnd, when he had sold his lands except the mere of Hanmer, he was composing much earlier in the century, for Edward ap Dafydd was disposing of his property between 1486 and 1515. The first part of Peniarth MS 179 was
HYWEL DDA (d. 950), king and legislator of his father's principality, namely Seisyllwg (Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi). He bequeathed this to his two sons Hywel and Clydog, and on the latter's death in the year 920 Hywel took possession of the whole. He married Elen, daughter of Llywarch ap Hyfaidd of Dyfed, who brought him Dyfed (modern Pembrokeshire) as her dower - for Llywarch was, in all probability, the last prince of Dyfed. The prince
HYWEL FOEL ap GRIFFRI ap PWYLL GWYDDEL (fl. c. 1240-1300), poet His only remaining work consists of the two awdlau in praise of Owain (Goch) ap Gruffydd, and composed during Owain's long imprisonment by his brother, prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. No details of his life are known.
HYWEL GETHIN (fl. c. 1485), poet a native, it is said, of Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire. No details concerning his life remain, but the dates given him, by Owen Jones, Gweirydd ap Rhys, Myrddin Fardd, and Wiliam Owen (viz. 1570-1600) are obviously too late, because a cywydd written by him in praise of the four sons of Rhys ap Hywel ap Madog of Llanystumdwy remains in manuscript; these four persons lived at the end of the 15th

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