Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DEINIOL (d. 584), saint, founder of Bangor and first bishop in Gwynedd son of Dunawd son of Pabo Post Prydyn, of the same royal line as Urien Rheged - Dwyai, daughter of Gwallog ap Lleenog was not his mother but his second cousin. As Deiniol and Maelgwn Gwynedd were contemporaries, so were his grandfather Pabo and the sons of Cunedda Wledig. Pabo, then, must have accompanied them to Wales, not because of any loss of territory but in order to acquire more. According
DWNN, GRUFFYDD (c. 1500 - c. 1570), country gentleman , Gruffudd Hiraethog, Owain Gwynedd, and others wrote verses in honour of him, his children, and his home, and their poems are enshrined in Llanstephan MS 40 and Llanstephan MS 133, and NLW MS 728D. He was alive in 1566 when Wiliam Cynwal addressed a poem to him, but none of the bards wrote for him after that. Gruffydd Dwnn is important as one of the country gentlemen who in the 16th and 17th cent
DWNN, LEWYS (c. 1550 - c. 1616) Betws Cedewain, genealogist old, grey-headed bards of undoubted reliability whom he knew and the earlier generation of bards such as Gutun Owain, Ieuan Brechfa, and Hywel Swrdwal, with whose works he was acquainted. There is evidence to show that Hywel ap Syr Mathew, Wiliam Llŷn, and Owain Gwynedd (fl. 1550-90), were his teachers and that Rhys Cain was one of his fellow-pupils. In February 1585 he obtained through the
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd Ednyfed ap Cynwrig (died 1246), claiming descent from Marchudd, was a member of one of a group of kindreds long settled in Rhos and Rhufoniog. As seneschal (in Welsh, distain) of Gwynedd c. 1215-1246 (A History of Wales, ii, 684-5), his political and military services to Llywelyn the Great were rewarded, not only by the grant to Ednyfed himself of bond vills in Anglesey, Nantconwy, Arllechwedd
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Gwynedd; 1844 - 1924), cleric and eisteddfodwr
EDWIN (d. 1073), prince of Tegeingl Described as lord or prince of Tegeingl (i.e. the commotes of Rhuddlan, Coleshill, and Prestatyn) and founder of one of the 'Fifteen [Noble] Tribes' of North Wales. Tegeingl formed a region, the greater part of which was for over three centuries part of the English kingdom of Mercia - i.e. until it was reconquered by Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd in the 12th century. Edwin is described in some
EINION ap COLLWYN (fl. 1100?), prince and warrior Lewis Glyn Cothi and Gwilym Tew assert that he was a man of Gwynedd who migrated to Glamorgan in Iestyn's days - and George Owen adds that his father Collwyn was nephew to Angharad daughter of Ednowain ap Bleddyn of Ardudwy and mother of Iestyn. It may be observed that Lloyd's A History of Wales ignores Einion completely (see p. 402, f.n.), and that he had intended to exclude him from the present work
EINION OFFEIRIAD (fl. c. 1320), the person whose name is associated with the earliest Welsh grammar or metrical grammar which we possess that is, a work dealing with the art of metrics and giving an abbreviated version in Welsh of the Latin grammar used in the Middle Ages. He sang an awdl to Rhys ap Gruffydd ap Hywel ap Gruffydd ab Ednyfed Fychan (died 1356); this belongs to the period 1314-22. Thomas Wiliems maintains in NLW MS 3029B that he was a native of Gwynedd and that he compiled the grammar in honour and in praise ('yr
ELEANOR DE MONTFORT (c. 1258 - 1282), princess and diplomat Leicester's household rolls reveal a genuine affection established between Eleanor and her cousin, the future king Edward I as letters from Eleanor were delivered to 'the lord Edward' (domino Edwardo) at her mother's expense. This bond played a crucial role in their subsequent political interactions in adulthood. At the age of five, Eleanor was betrothed to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, prince of Gwynedd. The
ELFODD (d. 809), bishop the record of his death in 809 (Harleian MS. 3859) calls him 'archiepiscopus Guenedote regione' (chief bishop in the land of Gwynedd), a phrase which at that date in Wales had no connotation of metropolitan authority.
ELIDIR SAIS (fl. end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th.), a poet He composed elegies upon Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1195), and Ednyfed Fychan (died 1246). He was not English, for we learn from Gwilym Ddu (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 277b) that he sprang 'from the wise men of Anglesey in the bosom of the sea.' Gwilym Ddu ranks his work with that of other leading poets as a 'correct canon' or a model of poetry. Most of his poems are religious, and are
ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650 - 1731), Welsh-American Quaker -in-law, John Evans, in Gwynedd, and was buried in the Friends' burial ground at Plymouth. Bryn Mawr College (now University) for women is a reminder of the Bryn Mawr in Wales where Rowland Ellis was born. On Rowland Ellis's antecedents and connections see further the article on the Lewis and Owen families of Tyddyn-y-garreg.

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