Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1500-1550), poet
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 GLAN TEIFI - see SAUNDERS, DAVID, II
DAFYDD GLYN DYFRDWY (fl. c. 1575), bard
DAFYDD GOCH BRYDYDD o FUALLT (fl. end of the 16th century), poet Among his extant poems are those written to Sir John Salusbury (NLW MS 6495D and NLW MS 6496C), Sir John Wynn of Gwydir (Cardiff MS. 83), and Gruffydd Fychan of Cors y Gedol (Llanstephan MS 118). It is also possible that he is the ' Dafydd Goch ' whose poetry is to be found in the following manuscripts: Llanstephan MS 38, Llanstephan MS 49, Llanstephan MS 118, Llanstephan MS 125, Llanstephan MS
DAFYDD GORLECH (1410? - 1490?), writer of cywyddau brud (vaticinations) 'Dafydd Gorlech Caermden' according to Peniarth MS 49 (167b). Twenty-five cywyddau are attributed to him in the manuscripts, but eleven of these are attributed to other writers as well. Among the fourteen attributed to him alone there is a cywydd which begins 'Am eryr braich môr a bryn' and contains references to Sir Roger Vaughan. Sir Roger was caught by Jasper Tudor in 1471 and executed at
DAFYDD GOWPER - see DAFYDD COWPER
DAFYDD IONAWR - see RICHARDS, DAVID
DAFYDD LLWYD (d. 1619) HENBLAS,, poet and scholar of the landed family of Henblas (Llangristiolus, Anglesey), who, it is said, graduated from S. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He married Catherine, daughter of Richard Owen of Penmynydd, and about eight children were born to them, three of the sons becoming clergymen. Lewys Dwnn and J. E. Griffith state that he also married Jane, daughter of Llywelyn ap Dafydd of Llandyfrydog (she being his first wife
DAFYDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION ap HYWEL (d. before 1469), prominent figure in Cydewain and a generous patron of the 15th century bards wife was Gwenllian, daughter of Meredith ab Owen ap Griffith ab Einion, lord of Towyn. They had two sons and a daughter, Rhys, Robert, and Ellen. RHYS AP DAFYDD LLWYD (died 1469) He was an esquire of the body to Edward IV and his steward in Cydewain, Kerry, Cyfeiliog, and Arwystli. He was also governor of Montgomery castle. He was lost in the battle of Danesmore or Banbury, 1469. An elegy by Dafydd
DAFYDD LLWYD ap HUW (fl. beginning of the 17th century), poet
DAFYDD LLWYD ap LLYWELYN ap GRUFFUDD (c. 1420 - c. 1500) Mathafarn, poet 1509), the poet's greatest hero. Contemporary poets praised Dafydd Llwyd as a soldier, a huntsman, an esquire (an honour bestowed on him after the victory at Bosworth), as a poet, and as an upholder of the prophetic tradition of Merlin. In his vaticinatory poems, he puts into verse much traditional material, but often as political propaganda. He is capable of praising Dafydd ap Ieuan ab Einion, as

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