Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1283), prince of Gwynedd all appearances under the tutelage of his mother - with a small share of power as lord of Cymydmaen in the far west of Gwynedd. The first known references to David, however, go back to 1241 when he and a younger brother, Rhodri, became hostages to Henry III under the terms of a royal agreement with Senena, relating to her husband and eldest son. David's political career may be said to have begun
DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1246), prince lose anything he could retain, Dafydd now resorted to delaying tactics, until, in the summer of 1241, Henry could wait no longer and led an expedition into North Wales. His progress was unexpectedly easy; an abnormal drought removed many of the usual obstacles, and the prince was forced to agree, at Gwern Eigron, near S. Asaph, on 29 August, to a peace which required him to resign all claim to the
DAFYDD ap MAREDUDD ab EDNYFED (fl. c. 1460), poet An example of his work remains in manuscript, this being a cywydd written in 1460 on the occasion of the return of Richard, duke of York, from Ireland, his new campaign against Henry VI, and the hasty summoning of Parliament late in the same year. Unfortunately, this same poem is attributed in various other manuscripts to Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and to Llywelyn ab Ednyfed alias
DAFYDD GAM (d. 1415), Welsh warrior was to receive forty marks a year (Cal. Close Rolls, 79). Since Henry had been for some years, through his marriage to Mary Bohun, in control of the lordship of Brecknock, the association was probably not new; Dafydd, at any rate, remained a loyal Lancastrian until his death. In November 1401 he was rewarded out of rebel lands (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 11), and, according to the Scottish historian, Walter
DAFYDD LLWYD ap LLYWELYN ap GRUFFUDD (c. 1420 - c. 1500) Mathafarn, poet earliest of his poems which can be dated is his elegy to Sir Gruffudd Vaughan (died 1447), and the poet lived to sing the praises of Arthur, son of Henry VII, who was born in 1486 -if we can accept the testimony given in Collections, historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire, xxxi, 195. he was composing as late as 1497. No elegy by him Arthur (died 1501) is known, nor to Henry VII (died
DAFYDD NANMOR (fl. 15th century), poet of the river Teify, of his sons, and of the kindred of Rhys ap Meredudd. 'Y Ty Gwyn ar Daf' (Whitland), Carmarthenshire, is said to be the place where he lies buried. His editor suggests the years 1410 to 1480 as, approximately, those of the poet's life. He was a supporter of the house of Lancaster throughout his life, but he wrote no cywydd to celebrate the victory of Henry Tudor in 1485; Roberts
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard , three elegies (one on the death of king Henry VII), a cywydd describing ' Ysgraff Porthaethwy,' i.e. the ferry over the Menai Straits, and two 'flyting' poems; sixteen of the above are printed in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1935.
DAVID (d. 1139?), bishop of Bangor the Scot,' who wrote an account of the expedition of the emperor Henry V to Rome in 1111. There is, at present, no means of reconciling the contradiction. Little is recorded of the activities of David. He was at Lambeth in 1121 and 1125, at Canterbury in the latter year, and at the Council of Westminster in 1127. Soon after his consecration he consented to the removal of the relics of Dubricius
DAVID ab OWEN (d. 1512), abbot and bishop York, but the poets reveal that, like many others, he changed sides and supported Henry Tudor in his need. He was at one time abbot of Strata Marcella, and for a period abbot of Strata Florida. Sometime after the end of 1489 he became abbot of Aberconwy at Maenan, and continued there after his elevation to the bishopric of St Asaph, 12 December 1503. By name of David, bishop of St Asaph, or David
DAVID, JOHN (1701? - 1756), Independent minister Cwmllynfell. He is pretty certainly the John David who joined Henry Palmer and Rees Davies, in a letter (Trevecka letter 231) to Howel Harris, 22 March 1740. He died 22 July 1756, and was buried at Manordivy. There is an elegy (printed in the work mentioned below) upon him by Morris Griffiths. A record in the Moravian archives at Haverfordwest speaks in very high terms of John David.
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1739? - 1817), Independent academy tutor Born 1739 or 1740, third son of REES DAVIES of the substantial freehold of Canerw in Llanboidy parish, Carmarthenshire. Rees Davies was himself a man of some note, though precise information about him is scanty; he died c. 1788. He was a teaching elder of Henllan Amgoed church, and (with Henry Palmer and John Davies of Glandŵr) wrote a letter to Howel Harris (Trevecka letter 231) on 22 March 1740
DAVIES, Sir DAVID (1792 - 1865), physician king William IV and Adelaide. He was knighted by Victoria soon after she ascended the throne. Davies married, on 8th February 1819, Letitia Maria, daughter of John Williams ('yr hen Syr,' 1745/6 - 1818); they had four children - (a) Samuel Price; (b) (Sir) Robert Henry (1824 - 1902), officer in the Indian Civil Service, mainly in the Punjab - from 1871 to 1877 he was governor of that province - he

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