Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN family Trawsgoed, Crosswood, muniments (in the National Library of Wales) is an indenture of 1547 whereby RICHARDE AP MORIS VAUGHAN, father of MORIS AP RICHARD AP MORIS of Llanafan, in consideration of the intended marriage between the son and Elliw, daughter and heiress of Howell ap Jenkin, covenants, with other persons, to assure to the use of the son and Elliw two messuages, etc.. one of which is 'the place at Trausgoed ', i.e
WYNN family Maesyneuadd, Llandecwyn cywyddau written by Siôn Phylip, Rhisiart Phylip, and Gruffydd Phylip (see Phylipiaid Ardudwy); the last-named also wrote a cywydd moliant to ' Mastr Edward Humffre.' It was by his first wife (of three) that he was the father of ROBERT AB EDWARD AP HUMPHREY, who by his wife, Elliw, daughter and heiress of Ifan ap Rhys Wynn, Hendre'r Mur, Maentwrog, had two daughters - (1) Elizabeth, who married Robert
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron by Y Prydydd Bychan. Amongst the fourteenth-century additions to the manuscript are two poems by Llywelyn Brydydd Hoddnant to Rhydderch's grandfather Ieuan ap Gruffudd Foel and his wife Ellylw (or Elliw), two by Hillyn to Ieuan Llwyd (as well as some anonymous verses to an unspecified Ieuan), and Dafydd ap Gwilym's elegy for Rhydderch's mother, Angharad. Rhydderch was well versed in medieval Welsh

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