Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLWYD, WILLIAM - see LLOYD, WILLIAM
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker he is said to have helped steer through the Bill to allow the translation of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer into Welsh. Though there are no Parliamentary records to confirm this, it is attested to in the eulogy written by Gruffudd Hiraethog. The subsequent Act resulted in the translation of the New Testament into Welsh by William Salesbury in 1567. Salesbury was a fellow Denbighshire man and
(fl. 1268), eulogist domains. This is the most 'nationalist' poetry in Welsh before the days of Glyn Dwr.
LLYN, WILLIAM - see LLŶN, WILIAM
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1317), nobleman, soldier and rebel martyr Llywelyn Bren. With the deposition of Edward II, the estates in Senghenydd were resumed (11 February 1327) by his sons - Gruffydd, John, Meurig, Roger, William and Llywelyn.
LLYWELYN ap GUTUN (fl. c. 1480), poet Pennardd, Hywel ap Rheinallt, and Lewis Môn. Ymrysonau, or bardic controversies, occurred between him and the following poets : D. Llwyd of Mathafarn, Guto'r Glyn, Lewys Môn, and Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Rhys Llwyd.
LLYWELYN ap GWILYM ap RHYS (fl. 16th century), poet Some examples of his work remain in MSS. These include an elegy to the last Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn (NLW MS 5273D (78b)); Swansea MS. 1 (246), a poem on Christ's image at Bangor, NLW MS 3048D (72), and, probably, the poem which is found in Cardiff MSS. 7 (421), 64 (658), 65 (64), and Cwrtmawr MS 23B (162b).
LLYWELYN ap IORWERTH (fl. 1173-1240), prince to the loss of Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Montgomery in 1223, but he again acquired strategic outposts with the acquisition of Builth from William de Breos in 1229, and the re-capture of Cardigan, 1231, at a time when he was engaged in meeting the menace caused by the consolidation of vast territorial interests in the march by certain royal officials, notably Hubert de Burgh. This phase was
LLYWELYN ap MOEL Y PANTRI (d. 1440) Llanwnnog, poet son of the poet (Llywelyn ?),who was nicknamed ' Moel y Pantri,' and father of the poet Owain ap Llywelyn ap Moel y Pantri. He was pupil of a Rhys ap Dafydd ab Iorwerth. His existing poetry includes love poems to a maiden named Euron, one in the form of a dialogue between the poet and his empty purse, and a number of ymryson (controversy) poems addressed to Guto'r Glyn. From his two provocative
LLYWELYN GOCH Y DANT (fl. 1470-1471), bard of Pembroke, at Chepstow, in 1471 - this elegy contains a violent attack upon Jasper Tudor. He also wrote an awdl, in unusual metres, upon the abbey of Neath. And that is all that survives of his compositions. Ieuan Du'r Bilwg describes him in a cywydd as a chief-of-song and an outstanding composer of poems in praise of men. Lewis Glyn Cothi suggests, in a poem to John ap David (Works, 108), that
LLYWELYN Y GLYN - see LEWIS GLYN COTHI
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic pride to him that a number of his poems were set to music, e.g. 'Pan Oeddwn Fachgen' ['When I was a Boy'] (1971) by William Mathias, and 'Gwyn Fyd y Griafolen' ['Blessed is the Rowan'] (2001) by Dilys Elwyn Edwards after his death. One of the creative high points of the post-war period is the trilogy of poems 'Ym Merlin - Awst 1945' ['In Berlin - August 1945']. From a historical point of view, the

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