Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, ELLIS (fl. 1640-1661), translator Born at Llwyn-gwern, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd, son of Cadwaladr Lewis ap Howel ap John and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Ellis Fychan, Brynllech, also in Llanuwchllyn. Little is known of Ellis Lewis except for references to him (and to his father) in Subsidy Rolls, etc. There exists a document of 16 August 1641 which shows that he possessed much land in the parishes of Llanuwchllyn and Llanycil
IEUAN ap HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1480), poet ladi our leding tw haf.' Elegies to him were written by Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Gruffydd ap Dafydd Fychan. There is a tradition that he, like his father, wrote a history of Wales from the time of Cadwaladr to that of Henry VI, but the work is not extant.
ANGHARAD (d. 1162) She was the wife of Gruffudd ap Cynan, was a daughter of Owain ab Edwin, a chieftain of eastern Gwynedd. She married Gruffudd about 1095, during his early struggle for power, and survived her husband many years, dying in 1162. Their children were Cadwallon (died 1132), Owain (Gwynedd), and Cadwaladr, and five daughters, named Gwenllian, Marared (Margaret), Rainillt, Susanna, and Annest. Of these
DAVIES, CADWALADR (1704), bard, ballad-writer, and collector of the ' Piser Sioned ' poems (Bangor MS. 3212 (564)); born at Llanycil, Meironnydd, son of David Thomas and Lowry Cadwaladr. He kept a school at Dwyryd near Corwen, and at Tre'rddôl (this in 1740). The ' Piser ' was gathered together in the years 1733-45, the main corpus being country songs and plygain carols, composed by homely bards of Penllyn and Edeirnion, the district of Cerrig-y-drudion
CYNAN DINDAETHWY (d. 816), prince was, according to the oldest pedigree, the son of Rhodri, a grandson of Cadwaladr (died 664). Inasmuch as Rhodri (usually found with the epithet 'Molwynog') died in 754 and Cynan is first mentioned in 813, this descent is open to question. His brief appearance in history gathers round a struggle with a certain Hywel, whom Dr. David Powel treats as his brother, for the possession of Anglesey. In
CADWALADR, ROGER (1566 - 1610), seminary priest and martyr
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr, born 24 May 1789 and christened 26 May at Llanycil (Bala). All our knowledge of her life comes from the Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis (two vols., 1857), compiled by Jane Williams, Ysgafell, from notes of her conversation. Left by the death of her mother (c. 1795-6) to the care of an elder sister whom she detested, Elizabeth quickly became a rebel. Though taken
OWENS, OWEN (1792 - 1862), Independent minister, and schoolmaster Born at Maes Angharad, Dolgelley, 21 August 1792. He was admitted to membership of the church by Cadwaladr Jones at Dolgelley in 1811. He kept a school, first in his own neighbourhood and later at Dinas Mawddwy, where he began to preach. In 1821 he was ordained minister of Rhes-y-cae and Salem churches, Flintshire, where he spent the rest of his life. He died 13 October 1862, and was buried in
CYNAN ab OWAIN (d. 1174), prince was the son of Owain Gwynedd by an unknown mother. In 1145, he and his brother Hywel joined in an attack upon Cardigan; the town was sacked, but the castle was not taken. Two years later the two brothers invaded Meirionnydd and drove out their uncle Cadwaladr; as they entered the cantref from opposite directions it would seem that Cynan was now established in Ardudwy. In 1150 it is recorded that
KADWALADR, SION (fl. 1750-1765), writer of ballads and interludes . The scenes are lively and the satire keen, and the author stands high in the second class of 18th century interludists. He should not be confused with the John Cadwaladr, whose ballads Sir O. M. Edwards printed in Beirdd y Berwyn.
RHYS WYN ap CADWALADR (fl. c. 1600) Giler,, poet second son of Cadwaladr ap Morris Gethin of Foelas. Some of his englynion and cywyddau are preserved in manuscript, among them an elegy to his son (Llanstephan MS 54 (259)), and a cywydd ymryson with Thomas Prys in Jes. Coll. MS. 12 (319), and NLW MS 3047C (84), and, in the same manuscripts, two cywyddau in reply to him by Thomas Prys and a satirical cywydd to him by Huw Machno. In Llanstephan MS
CADWALADR, Sir RHYS (fl. 1666-1690), cleric and poet

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