Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EINION ap GWALCHMAI (fl. 1203-1223), poet A portion of an awdl by him to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth mentions that prince as fighting against the English, and was therefore probably composed after the turn of the century. He also composed a beautiful elegy to Nest, daughter of Hywel, of Towyn, Meironnydd, and three awdlau to God. In one of these he refers to his intention to go on a pilgrimage over the Alps to the Holy Land. References in his
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
ELIDIR SAIS (fl. end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th.), a poet Fychan, the tradition mentioned by Sir J. E. Lloyd (A History of Wales, 684) that that statesman had had a military career is borne out. A son of the 'lord' Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132 - 1197) was called Hywel Sais (he died 1204) because he had been forced to live for years in England; and it is not inconceivable that the attitude of Elidir Sais towards Llywelyn the Great had compelled him to do the same
ELLIS family Bron y Foel, Ystumllyn, Ynyscynhaearn Evans family of Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog; Ieuan, brother of Sir Hywel y Fwyall, was ancestor of the Madryn family. HYWEL AP MEREDYDD, of Bron y Foel, whose wife was Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffydd ap Ednyfed Fychan, had a son, GRUFFYDD AP HYWEL, who, by his wife Angharad, was the father of EINION AP GRUFFYDD, sheriff of Caernarvonshire 1354-6, and Sir Hywel y Fwyall. Einion ap Gruffydd was succeeded by
ELSTAN (or ELYSTAN) GLODRYDD, founder of the fifth of the 'royal tribes' of Wales , Idnerth, also had three sons; of these, Madog (died 1140) had five sons. Two of Madog's sons, Hywel and Cadwgan, were killed in 1142, and a third, Maredudd, in 1146; the other two, CADWALLON (died 1179) and EINION CLUD (died 1177), ruled respectively over Maelienydd and Elfael. They were not on good terms, and in 1160 Cadwallon seized Einion and handed him over to Owain Gwynedd, who surrendered him to
EMANUEL, HYWEL DAVID (1921 - 1970), librarian and Medieval Latin scholar
EVANS, DANIEL (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792 - 1846), cleric and poet , and that of archdeacon Thomas Beynon. He was also friendly with David Davis, Castell Hywel, and with the other poets of Cardiganshire, and he carried on the tradition of Edward Richard and Ieuan Brydydd Hir. He died by his own hand, 28 March 1846, and was buried in Pencarreg churchyard.
EVANS, HAROLD MEURIG (1911 - 2010), teacher, lexicographer two Emeritus Professors, namely Derec Llwyd Morgan and the late Hywel Teifi Edwards, Gareth Jones who was at that time Director of Education for Cardiganshire and Dr. Huw Walters, Head of the Bibliography of Wales Unit at the National Library of Wales. When Hywel Teifi Edwards was approached regarding the nomination his response was “My dear girl, where on earth have you been till now?”. However
EVANS, HUGH (Hywel Eryri; 1767 - 1841?), poet
EVANS, THOMAS (Telynog; 1840 - 1865), poet 'Blodeuyn bach wyf fi mewn gardd' and 'Yr Haf.' The latter is included in Blodeugerdd by W. J. Gruffydd. A collected edition of his work arranged by his friend Dafydd Morganwg (D. W. Jones) with a biographical sketch by Hywel Williams was published in 1866. He died 29 April 1865 and was buried in the Aberdare cemetery.
EVANS, WILLIAM (1779 - 1854), Wesleyan minister Born 25 October 1779 at Caernarvon. His father died before he was born and the cost of his education at Beaumaris was borne by his mother's family - she came from Pant Hywel, Llandegfan. After having been a barber at Amlwch and Caernarvon, he became a minister in 1806. His circuits were as follows: Cardiff (1806), Llangollen (1807), Llanrwst (1809), Pwllheli (1810), Holywell (1812), Beaumaris
FITZSTEPHEN, ROBERT (d. c. 1183), one of the conquerors of Ireland fortress of Cardigan for the Clares for a long period, even against the onslaught of Hywel ab Owain in 1145. Not until 1165, after Rhys ap Gruffydd had subdued almost the whole of Ceredigion, did the castle fall into the hands of the Welsh. It was then betrayed to Rhys, razed to the ground, and Robert was imprisoned for over three years. On his release he crossed to Ireland to aid the king of Leinster

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