Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader Catherine, the daughter of William Powell, a local colliery checkweighman, and they set up home at Onllwyn. The union was extraordinarily happy and proved immensely supportive to him throughout the harsh vicissitudes of public life. They had two children, a daughter Nancy (born 1939), and a son Hywel (born 1946) who became a distinguished historian and served as Labour MP for Aberavon from 2001. Francis
GORONWY GYRIOG (fl. c. 1310-1360), poet Father, apparently, of the poet Iorwerth ab y Cyriog. No details are known concerning him, but examples of his work are found in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and other manuscripts. They include an awdl addressed to Madog ab Iorwerth, bishop of Bangor, and an elegy to Gwenhwyfar, wife of Hywel ap Tudur of Anglesey (brother to Goronwy of Penmynydd). It appears that he was also the author of at least
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, battle of the Spurs, and the siege of Tournai in August 1513, and was knighted at Tournai 25 September 1513. (L. and P. Henry VIII, vol. I, part i, 1176, 1496, part ii, 2301, 2480, 2575.) Poems by Lewis Môn, Huw Llwyd ap Dafydd, Tudur Aled, and Gruffydd ap Tudur ap Hywel refer to his part in the campaign. (NLW MS 3051D, Mostyn MSS. 233, 520, 523, 537, 585; Cardiff MSS. 2, 103; Gwaith Tudur Aled, ed. T
GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD ap HYWEL (fl. 1480-1520), poet
GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD FYCHAN (fl. 15th century), poet Fychan after reading the elegy of Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys on Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal. Two englynion, presumably composed by a son of his, Owain, are found in Peniarth MS 77 (319).
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (d. 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh Cambriae when he won a victory at the battle of Rhyd-y-groes ('the ford of the cross') on the river Severn. Subsequently he ravaged Llanbadarn and expelled Hywel ab Edwin from the lordship of Deheubarth. Hywel returned two years later, only to be defeated by Gruffudd at the battle of Pencader Pencader in Carmarthenshire, where he also captured Hywel's wife. After his early successes, Gruffudd's rivals
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1063), king of Gwynedd and Powys, and after 1055 king of all Wales enemies. Having struck the men of Mercia and made the Marches safe he turned his attention to Deheubarth, where Hywel ab Edwin was king. There is not much information about the conflict between the two; but in 1040 Gruffudd again attacked Ceredigion and burned Llanbadarnfawr. In 1041 Gruffudd again defeated Hywel in the battle of Pencader, but he did not succeed in overpowering him completely for in
GRUFFUDD ap MAREDUDD ap DAFYDD (fl. 1352-1382), poet to their subject matter, namely religious poems, eulogistic and elegiac poety, and love poetry. His awdlau to the Rood of Chester, to God, and to the Virgin Mary are fair examples of his adherence to the bardic traditions in both subject and mode of expression. His eulogies and elegies are addressed to the members of one family, namely Tudur Fychan (died 1367), Hywel fab Gronwy, Gronwy Fychan (died
GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century Owen Tudor. It is, therefore, impossible to accept the reports that he was mortally wounded either at the battle of Wakefield, 1460, or at Mortimer's Cross, 1461. His praises were sung by Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Rhys Llwyd ap Rhys ap Rhicert, Gwilym ap Ieuan Hen, and Lewis Glyn Cothi. It is probable that the englynion attributed to him and Owen Dwnn and Griffith Benrhaw
GRUFFUDD ap TUDUR ap HYWEL (fl. 1500-1540), poet
GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION LLYGLIW (fl. c. 1380-1410), a poet nephew of the poet Hywel ab Einion Llygliw, and native of the parish of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire. According to the elegy composed to him by Rhys Goch Eryri he was a descendant of Einion Yrth; he is called in Cardiff MS. 18 (190) ' chancellor of Hereford cathedral,' but no further details or supporting proof are known. One of the most important and able of contemporary poets and well-acquainted
GRUFFYDD LLWYD Sir (d. 1335), traditional hero of a supposed Welsh revolt in 1322 in 1284; Llanrhystud came to him from his uncle Sir Hywel ap Gruffydd, who perished in the disaster at 'the bridge of Anglesey ' in November 1282. Llwyd's immediate antecedents were strongly Anglophile; both his father and his uncle Hywel had been active and trusted supporters of Edward I in the Welsh war of 1282-4; he himself joined queen Eleanor's household, and in 1283 was admitted as a yeoman

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