Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist thought) that the poet was alive even in 1500. An anonymous elegy upon him speaks of the brevity of his life, and it seems likely enough that he did not live into the 16th century. Gutun Owain was a master craftsman in verse. All his poetry is 'court poetry'; there are cywyddau of petition or of portrayal (dyfalu), of panegyric or of elegy. Closely following the precepts laid down in the professional
GWALCHMAI ap MEILYR (fl. 1130-1180), court poet one of the earlier Gogynfeirdd. He sang to Owain Gwynedd (died 1170) to his brothers, to Dafydd and Rhodri his sons, and also to Madog ap Maredudd of Powys (died 1160). Other extant poems of his are his ' Gorhoffedd ' (vaunting poem), his ' Dream,' and his verses to Eve, his wife. The Hendreg. MS. and the 'Red Book of Hergest' also attribute to him an ode to God which according to The Myvyrian
GWENWYNWYN (d. 1216), lord of Powys He was the son of Owain Cyfeiliog and Gwenllian, daughter of Owain Gwynedd. In 1195 he succeeded his father as lord of lower Powys. When, in 1197, Gwenwynwyn acquired the lordship of Arwystli, almost the entire territory lying between the Tanat and the Severn, with extensions into the valleys of the Dovey and upper Wye, came under his jurisdiction. Henceforth, the whole area was known as Powys
GWILYM ap IEUAN HEN (fl. c. 1440-1480), poet Owain of Caereinion (Brogyntyn MS. 1 (128)), and Dafydd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion of Newtown (NLW MS 16B (206)), and other members of the ruling classes of his period. Brogyntyn MS. 2 (437b, 439b, 440b); Cwrtmawr MS 129B (158), Cwrtmawr MS 243B (141); NLW MS 16B (215).
GWILYM RYFEL (fl. 12th century), poet All that remains of his work are two chains of englynion of intercession to Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd. These belong to the period 1174-75 when David ruled over the greater part of Gwynedd, including Anglesey. Gwilym Ryfel was one of the friends lamented by Gruffudd ap Gwrgenau in a chain of beautifully written englynion, and from this work (Hendregadredd MS. 76a, The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor Born at Gwydir, Llanrwst, he was the fifth and youngest (or possibly fourth) son of John Wyn ap Meredydd, a direct descendant of Owain Gwynedd. His eldest brother Morys was the father of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir and another, Robert (third son), who built Plas Mawr, Conway, became second husband of Dorothy Williams, grandmother of archbishop John Williams. John Gwyn entered Queens' College
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, .1388) became a justice of the king's bench in 1383 and was knighted in 1387. He married Agnes (or Angharad), daughter of Llywelyn Ddu ap Gruffydd ap Iorwerth, and the Welsh tone of the family appears in the support they gave to Owain Glyn Dwr, who married Sir David's daughter Margaret. Her brothers GRIFFITH (who married into the Tudor family of Penmynydd) and PHILIP joined in proclaiming him prince
HARRY, GEORGE OWEN (c. 1553 - c. 1614), antiquary According to the pedigree which he himself supplied to Lewis Dwnn, he was the son of Owain ap Harri of Llanelly and Maud, daughter of Phillip ap John ap Thomas of ' Hendre Mor,' Gower. He was instituted into the rectory of Whitchurch in Cemais, Pembrokeshire, on 18 March 1584, on the presentation of George Owen of Henllys. He was also rector of Llanfihangel Penbedw in the same neighbourhood
HENRY (1457 - 1509), king of England Born in Pembroke castle, 28 January 1457, posthumous son of Edmund Tudor by Margaret Beaufort, sole inheritrix of the Lancastrian claim to the throne, and nephew of Jasper Tudor. Henry was descended through his grandfather, Owain Tudur, from former Welsh royal families; these ties were reinforced by his marriage, on 18 January 1486, with Elizabeth of York, herself a lineal descendant of Llywelyn
HOLBACHE, DAVID (fl. 1377-1423), lawyer, founder of Oswestry Grammar School Despite his (as yet unexplained) English surname, he was a Welshman; according to the pedigrees in Harl. MS. 4181 (Powys Fadog, iv, 93) and Peniarth MS 129 (by his fellow-countryman Gutun Owain), he was son of Ieuan Goch ap Dafydd Goch ap Iorwerth ap Cynwrig ap Heilyn (of Pentre-heilyn, in Ellesmere) ap Trahaearn ab Iddon; he had lands at Dudleston in Chirkland; he was steward of the town and
HOLLAND family were congeners of the Conway Hollands. But Bernard Holland will allow at best only an illegitimate connection between the two. It seems that we are on firm ground only when we reach a certain ROGER (or HOESGYN) HOLLAND, whatever may have brought him into Wales. He had a son, ROBIN HOLLAND, who was a partisan of Owain Glyn Dŵr. This Robin had two sons who concern us: HOWEL HOLLAND of (3) PENNANT (i.e
HOOSON, JOHN (1883 - 1969), teacher, scholar and Owain Myfyr, as well as the connections of English writers, such as Dr. Johnson with the Clwyd valley. He lectured frequently in Welsh and in English at the London Welsh centre, London Welsh chapels and to societies in Hiraethog and the Clwyd valley. He contributed articles on his favourite subjects to publications such as Y Ddinas, Y Drysorfa, Y Traethodydd, The London Welshman and to local

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