Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD BACH AP MADOG WLADAIDD - see SYPYN CYFEILIOG II
DAFYDD BACH ap MADOG WLADAIDD - see CNEPPYN GWERTHRYNION
DAFYDD BAENTIWR (fl. c. 1500-1530?), a poet His only extant work is his bardic controversy (ymryson) with Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys Llwyd. It contains a poem addressed to Gruffydd by Dafydd, a poem in reply by Gruffydd, and another by Dafydd. This controversy is to be found in the following manuscripts - Cardiff 7, Mostyn 143, NLW MS 5269B, Peniarth MS 112 Peniarth MS 152; and parts of it in NLW MS 728D and Peniarth MS 78.
DAFYDD BENFRAS (fl. 1230-1260), poet His father's name was Llywarch, and his home was in Anglesey. He wrote eulogies to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, and an elegy upon his death in 1240. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1244) and Dafydd ap Llywelyn (1246) were also the subjects of elegies by Dafydd Benfras. Soon after Llywelyn ap Gruffydd had started on his campaign against his brother Owain in 1255 and against the English of the Middle Country in
DAFYDD BENWYN (fl. second half of the 16th century), bards of Glamorgan His contemporary, Sils ap Siôn, says that he was from Llangeinor. His bardic teacher was Rhisiart Iorwerth (Rhisiart Fynglwyd,), Llangynwyd, son of Iorwerth Fynglwyd. Some of his work, in his autograph, is in Cardiff MS. 10 and Llanstephan MS 164, and there are extant two large collections of his awdlau and cywyddau, the one in Cardiff MS. 2 (277) and the other in Jes. Coll. MS. 13. He was the
DAFYDD BRYDYDD HIR - see JONES, DAVID
DAFYDD COWPER (GOWPER) (fl. c. 1500), poet His poems are preserved in Peniarth MS 76, Peniarth MS 312, Llanstephan MS 118, Cardiff MS. 7, Cardiff MS. 49, B.M. Add. MS. 14997, and NLW MS 728D. Among them is a cywydd which John Puleston the elder ('Sion pilstwn hen') of Bersham caused to be written to John, abbot of Valle Crucis, and an englyn to the steeple of Wrexham church, 1507.
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor signature, the house was that of the archdeacon of Bangor, and only if ' archdeacon ' be an error for ' dean ' can Dafydd Daron be brought into the story.
DAFYDD DDU ATHRO HIRADDUG (fl. before 1400), a poet NLW MS 3029B, that he was a man 'o Degeingyl,' i.e. from what is modern Flintshire. Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd (died 1644), states, in Peniarth MS 49, that he was 'archdeacon of Diserth'; as Dafydd Ddu is called 'Athro' (teacher, etc.) and that term sometimes connotes (as is said in the bardic grammar) a particular type of cleric, it may be that Dr. Davies was recording some tradition which he had
DAFYDD DDU ERYRI - see THOMAS, DAVID
DAFYDD EMLYN (fl. 1603-1622), poet and cleric in Llanstephan MS 38 and B.M. MS. 48. Avoid confusing him with Dafydd Wiliam Pyrs, fl. c. 1660.
DAFYDD EPYNT (fl. c. 1460), poet

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