Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Ddinas). Any intention of applying for a place at Oxford or Cambridge was forgotten, his career path was changed and he was committed to the Welsh language. He studied at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire from 1931, graduating in Welsh and History in 1934, and was strongly influenced there by W. J. Gruffydd, whom he is said to have idolized at one time; he wrote the essay on
MAB Y CLOCHYDDYN (fl. c. 1380), poet He is reputed to have been a native of Llanafan-fawr, Brecknock. Two examples of his work are found in the 'Red Book of Hergest' and a number of other manuscripts. They are an elegy to Gwenhwyfar, daughter of Madog and wife of Hywel ap Tudur ap Gruffudd of Anglesey, and two englynion.
MADOG ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1236), lord of Powys Elder son of Gruffydd Maelor I, and Angharad, daughter of Owain Gwynedd. With his brother Owen, he succeeded Gruffydd in 1191 and, on Owen's death in 1197, became sole ruler of Powys north of the Rhaeadr and the Tanat. Under his son, Gruffydd Maelor II, this area, comprising Welsh and English Maelor, Iâl, Cynllaith, Nanheudwy, and part of Mochnant, became known as Powys Fadog, in contrast with
MADOG ap GWALLTER, friar, a religious poet homely than was usual among the 'Gogynfeirdd' (this is particularly so in the case of the Nativity poem), and his ode to God would appear to be the work of a man of some theological training. The Franciscans are known to have reached Wales by 1237, for in that year Llywelyn the Great built them a house at Llan-faes. Madog ap Gwallter's verse reveals the freshness and the atmosphere of the early
MADOG ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1294), rebel It has been conclusively shown that he was the son of Llywelyn ap Maredudd, the last vassal lord of Meirionydd, who had been deprived of his patrimony for opposing Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in 1256 (see Llywelyn Fawr and Llywelyn Fychan - lords of Meirionydd). Llywelyn lived in England as a royal pensioner, and after his death in 1263, Madog continued in favour at the English court. During the year
MADOG ap MAREDUDD (d. 1160), king of Powys . His praises were sung by the leading poets of the day, and the impression created on the minds of contemporaries by the influence which he asserted in central Wales is enshrined in contemporary prose romances. He was buried in the mother-church of Powys - S. Tysilio at Meifod. He married Susanna, daughter of Gruffydd ap Cynan.His dominions were divided among a number of minor lords of Powys - his
MADOG BENFRAS (fl. c. 1320-1360), poet of Marchwiail, Denbighshire. His pedigree is given in Powys Fadog thus: ' Madog Benfras ap Gruffudd ap Iorwerth, arglwydd Sonlli, ab Einion Goch ab Ieuaf ap Llywarch ap Ieuaf ap Niniaw ap Cynfrig ap Rhiwallawn.' His two brothers, Llywelyn Llogell (parish priest of Marchwiail), and Ednyfed, were also poets; according to Iolo Morganwg their bardic teacher was Llywelyn ap Gwilym of Emlyn. Iolo also
MADOG DWYGRAIG (fl. c. 1370), poet one of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd' group. A number of his awdlau remain in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and other MSS. They include religious and satirical poems, and also ones addressed to Hopcyn ap Thomas ab Einion of Ynys Dawy, Gruffudd ap Madog of Llechwedd Ystrad, and Morgan Dafydd ap Llywarch of Ystrad Tywi. A number of these were included in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
MADOG FYCHAN ap MADOG ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1269), son and brother to the Princes of Powys Fadog Grandson of Gruffydd Maelor I, and brother of Gruffydd Maelor II. When his father died in 1236 Madog Fychan joined in the subsequent partition of Powys Fadog. He adopted the same attitude as Gruffydd Maelor I to the major political problems of the time; in 1245 he is found among the allies of Dafydd ap Llywelyn, and in 1258 he is on the side of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. The fact that his surety for
MAELGWN ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1173), prince of Anglesey Son of Owain Gwynedd by Gwladus, daughter of Llywarch ap Trahaearn, uterine brother of Iorwerth Drwyndwn, and uncle of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In the partition of his father's dominions he received Anglesey, but was driven out of the island in 1173 by his half-brother, Dafydd. He fled to Ireland, returned later in the year, and was made a prisoner. His subsequent fate is unknown.
MAELGWN ap RHYS (c. 1170 - 1230), lord of Ceredigion ancestral lands, to the embarrassment of his brother Gruffydd, his bitterest foe, and after 1201, when Gruffydd died, of his nephews Rhys and Owain. By allying with Gwenwynwyn and king John he secured, in 1199, the lordship of Ceredigion, only to be deprived of the northern commotes by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth in 1207. It was his failure to recover this lost territory after helping John to win a victory over
MAELGWN ap RHYS (d. 1295), rebel of 1294 a son of Rhys Fychan, last lord of Geneu'r Glyn in north Cardiganshire, and a descendant of Maelgwn ap Rhys ap Gruffydd. When in 1294 a general uprising against alien rule broke out in Wales, led by Madog ap Llywelyn in North Wales, and Morgan in Glamorgan, Maelgwn assumed the leadership of the insurgents in Cardiganshire. The campaign in west Wales comprised a hard, but unsuccessful, siege of

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