Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1283), prince of Gwynedd . Eventually he was brought to trial at Shrewsbury, and there, on 3 October 1283, David III, on account of his broken allegiance to England's king, suffered a traitor's death. There are no records of David's marital associations before his alliance with Elizabeth Ferrers; but he had a large number of daughters who appear to have ended their days in various nunneries, and two sons, Llywelyn and Owen, the
DAFYDD ap IEUAN (IFAN) ab OWEN (fl. 1560), poet
DAFYDD ap IFAN ab OWEN - see DAFYDD ap IEUAN ab OWEN
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 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 LLWYD (d. 1619) HENBLAS,, poet and scholar of the landed family of Henblas (Llangristiolus, Anglesey), who, it is said, graduated from S. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He married Catherine, daughter of Richard Owen of Penmynydd, and about eight children were born to them, three of the sons becoming clergymen. Lewys Dwnn and J. E. Griffith state that he also married Jane, daughter of Llywelyn ap Dafydd of Llandyfrydog (she being his first wife
DAFYDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION ap HYWEL (d. before 1469), prominent figure in Cydewain and a generous patron of the 15th century bards wife was Gwenllian, daughter of Meredith ab Owen ap Griffith ab Einion, lord of Towyn. They had two sons and a daughter, Rhys, Robert, and Ellen. RHYS AP DAFYDD LLWYD (died 1469) He was an esquire of the body to Edward IV and his steward in Cydewain, Kerry, Cyfeiliog, and Arwystli. He was also governor of Montgomery castle. He was lost in the battle of Danesmore or Banbury, 1469. An elegy by Dafydd
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard Society, 1934. In a list of clergy in the diocese of Bangor in the year 1504 Dafydd Trevor is described as rector of Llanygrad, i.e. Llaneugrad-cum-Llanallgo, Anglesey, and as a canon. This is how he describes himself in a deed (dated 1524 and signed by himself) by which he transfers ' Tyddyn Hwfa ' near Llangeinwen church, Anglesey, to Owen Holland and others - 'Ego dominus david Trevor clericus alias
DAFYDD WILIAM PYRS (or PRYS) (fl. c. 1660), poet A native, it is said, of Cynwyd, Meironnydd. No details regarding his life are known, but at least two of his poems in free metres remain. One is entitled 'Hanes yr hen ŵr o'r coed,' and the other, in the form of a dialogue between two sisters, has alternate stanzas by Mathew Owen of Llangar and himself. Avoid confusing him with Dafydd Emlyn (Dafydd William Prys), fl. 1603-1622
DAFYDD, OWEN (1751 - 1814?), rustic poet and ballad-writer He is said to have been a native of Gwynfe, Carmarthenshire, but in 1783 he was living at Llandybïe, and it is thought that he was the ' Owen Watkin ' who, there, married Joyce William of Cwm Aman, 21 November 1783. He was a miller by trade, and throughout his life was compelled to move from place to place in pursuit of his calling. He lived for a time at Cwmgrenig-fach, Cwm Aman, and later at
DAVID ab OWEN (d. 1512), abbot and bishop A native of Glasgoed in Meifod, Montgomeryshire, he was the son of Owen ap Deio ap Llewelyn ab Einion ap Celynin. He studied canon and civil law at Oxford, and he is said to have taken his doctorate in law. His legal knowledge seems to have been put into practice in the service of John, earl of Worcester, chief justice of North Wales, between 1461 and 1467. He was thus a supporter of the house of
DAVID, REES (fl. 1746), early Arminian Baptist schoolmaster. In 1720 or 1721 he published a Welsh translation of the Baptist Association's Confession of Faith. This has been wrongly attributed to Jenkin Jones of Llwyn-rhyd-owen (1700? - 1742), an attribution not only improbable in itself but contradicted by the 'R.D.' appended to the book and to its preface. On the other hand, Joshua Thomas, oddly enough, credits David with Llun Agrippa, 1723 (a version

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