Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD LLWYD ap LLYWELYN ap GRUFFUDD (c. 1420 - c. 1500) Mathafarn, poet sons were named Ieuan, Meredudd, and Llywelyn, mention being also made of a daughter named after her mother (Powys Fadog, vi, 37), and possibly of other sons. Besides the vaticinatory poems, there remain poems of controversy between him and Llywelyn ap Gutun and others. Not having to compose for a living, he did not leave many petition poems, panegyrics, or elegies. The objects of his praise
DAFYDD Y COED (fl. 1380), poets Four substantial awdlau by him and smaller poems of a satirical nature have been preserved in the ' Red Book of Hergest.' He sang to Rhydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd of Glyn Aeron (fl. 1386-97), Hopkin ap Thomas of Ynysdawe (fl. 1360-90), and Gruffudd ap Llywelyn from Uwch Aeron. Moses Williams's estimate in his Repertorium Poeticum that he flourished about 1380 is confirmed. The above awdlau and the
DAFYDD, EDWARD (c. 1600 - 1678?) Margam, bard His birth may be assigned to c. 1600 -there is a cywydd which he wrote in 1623. Iolo Morganwg said that his bardic teacher was Llywelyn Siôn, of the neighbouring parish of Laleston. He was the most prominent of the Glamorgan bards of the 17th century; in all probability he can be regarded as the last of them who was a professional bard. He sang awdlau and cywyddau to the landed gentry of
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.
DEWI Saint , founder and abbot-bishop of S. Davids, and patron saint of Wales Rhygyfarch's work; so also is his 'Life' by John of Tynemouth (c. 1290 - 1350). The Welsh 'Life' also is a translation and an adaptation of Rhygyfarch's work: the earliest version is found in 'The Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewi-frefi' (1346). Odes to David were composed by many later poets, e.g. Iolo Goch, Ieuan Rhydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn, Rhisiart ap Rhys, Lewis Glyn Cothi. In
DEIO ap IEUAN BWL (fl. c. 1530), poet His only known poem is a cywydd in praise of Llywelyn ap Ieuan ap Howel of Moelyrch while seeking also the gift of two dogs for William ap Mathew ap Griffith. According to Lewis Dwnn, Llywelyn died 1534.
DERFEL, ROBERT JONES (1824 - 1905), poet and socialist agnostic periodicals. When he gave up preaching, about 1865, he bought with his savings a Welsh bookshop in Manchester which had attached to it a printing press and it was from this press that he published some of his English pamphlets on socialism, and also 'Derfel's School Series,' annotated English poems on Llywelyn the Last and others, with short extracts from Scott, Coleridge, etc.; but this venture
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel Henry Dwn of Croesasgwrn, Llangyndeyrn, in Carmarthenshire, was the son of Gruffudd Dwn (also called Gruffudd Gethin) ap Cadwgan and Annes, daughter of Cadwgan ap Ieuan, and a direct descendant of Llywelyn ap Gwrgan, lord of Cydweli. Dwn first appears in the historical record serving in Picardy and Normandy in 1369 under John of Gaunt, the first Duke of Lancaster, who appointed him steward of the
EDERN DAFOD AUR, made a small dosbarth (arrangement or grammar) of the orthography of the Welsh language and of the form of words Edern Dafod Aur' in the elegy written upon the death of Tudur Aled by Siôn ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan. It is obvious that the work had become recognized as one of the ancient authorities by 1525; it is more than probable, therefore, that it belongs to the preceding century. But more research is necessary before the problem can be solved.
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, Sir JOHN GORONWY (1891 - 1976), historian an essay that transformed understanding of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and his relations with Edward I. At the same time, essays on parliament, taxation and baronial grievances in an age of war were natural developments from his work on Edward I's reign, and made him the pre-eminent historian of the Commons in parliament in its most formative period. His interest in these two fields of study would

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