Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DEINIOL (d. 584), saint, founder of Bangor and first bishop in Gwynedd son of Dunawd son of Pabo Post Prydyn, of the same royal line as Urien Rheged - Dwyai, daughter of Gwallog ap Lleenog was not his mother but his second cousin. As Deiniol and Maelgwn Gwynedd were contemporaries, so were his grandfather Pabo and the sons of Cunedda Wledig. Pabo, then, must have accompanied them to Wales, not because of any loss of territory but in order to acquire more. According
DUNAWD (fl. 6th century), saint . With his three sons Deiniol, Cynwyl, and Gwarthan, he founded the monastery of Bangor Iscoed on the banks of the Dee in Flintshire, and became its first abbot. Sir John E. Lloyd, however, rejects this tradition and prefers to regard Saint Deiniol as the founder of Bangor Iscoed. Ann. C. record the death of ' Dunaut rex ' in the year 595. But Bede states that Dunawd (' Dinoot ') was still abbot of
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard Trevor was buried in Llanallgo and added that some of the parishioners could then indicate the site of his grave. His poems - they are all in the cywydd form - consist of eight 'petitions' (the one in which a request is made for a concubine and a harp is, perhaps, the best known), four 'eulogies' (among them is one to ' Deiniol Bangor,' i.e. bishop Daniel), three religious or philosophical cywyddau
EVANS, DAVID DELTA (Dewi Hiraddug; 1866 - 1948), journalist, author and Unitarian minister the pseudonym Cadfan Rhys, Deiniol Ddu and An Old Sinner. Even Delta was an assumed name, his baptismal name being David. He wrote a weekly column for the Kentish Independent for years under the name, ' An Old Philosopher '. He wrote an article on Phrenyddeg (phrenology) in the second edition of Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig, 1896. He was a prolific writer. He wrote two novels, Daniel Evelyn; Heretic, 1913
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet Literature Committee of the national eisteddfod at Llandudno, and he wrote a feature programme ' Y Llinyn Arian ', portraying the Vale of Conwy, which was staged at that eisteddfod. He wrote a pageant, ' Deiniol Sant ' 1959, which was performed at Bangor cathedral. His play, ' Goleuni y Byd ' was staged at the parish church, Conwy, and was later performed at Bangor cathedral. In June 1967 he drew up a
ANEIRIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), poet known in the old pedigrees; for Dwywei, daughter of Llëennawg, was the mother of S. Deinyoel (Deiniol). According to Nennius her brother Gwallawg was the ally of Urien in the war against Hussa, son of Ida (585-92), while, according to the Annales, St. Deinyoel died in 584. Is it possible that Aneirin the poet of the 'Gododdin' was his younger brother? It might well be - but it would be foolish to

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