Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD ap GRONW GETHIN (fl. c. 1380-1420), poet
GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD GAPLAN (fl. c. 1400?), poet
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
GRUFFUDD HAFREN (fl. c. 1600), poet Davies of Mallwyd (NLW MS 5269B (393b, 405)), and elegies to the two poets, Siôn Phylip (NLW MS 799D (40)) and Thomas Penllyn (Cwrtmawr MS 11B (189)). A bardic controversy or ymryson, took place - Rhisiart Phylip and Gruffudd Hafren against Siôn Phylip and Ieuan Tew (Llanstephan MS 133 (497-500)); and a shorter one occurred between Roger Cyffin and Gruffudd (Cwrtmawr MS 206B (101)). No details have
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar the Normal College, Bangor, and was vice-principal from 1920 till his retirement in 1949. As a scholar Thomas Roberts was interested in the works of the poets of the gentry throughout his life. The subject of his M.A. dissertation in 1910 was the poetry of Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan. In 1914 he published Gwaith Dafydd ab Edmwnd in the Bangor Welsh Manuscripts Society ” series. The work was
SIMWNT FYCHAN (c. 1530 - 1606), poet who lived in Tŷ Brith in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. It is sometimes said that he was born in 1526; that cannot be proved, but as he was writing poems c. 1550 it is obvious that he was born before 1530. His bardic teacher was Gruffudd Hiraethog and he was given the grade of pencerdd at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568; a copy of the licence granted to him appears in Y Greal, 1806. Many of his cywyddau
SION BRWYNOG (d. 1567?), poet between him and Gruffudd Hiraethog on the subject of the merits of Anglesey and Tegeingl. He addressed poems to Henry VIII and Mary, and mentions Edward VI, but does not refer to Elizabeth at all. He was a staunch papist who had no love or use for the new religion. His name is not included in the list of bards who attended the 1523 eisteddfod at Caerwys - perhaps he was too young.. He married Jane
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel Henry Dwn of Croesasgwrn, Llangyndeyrn, in Carmarthenshire, was the son of Gruffudd Dwn (also called Gruffudd Gethin) ap Cadwgan and Annes, daughter of Cadwgan ap Ieuan, and a direct descendant of Llywelyn ap Gwrgan, lord of Cydweli. Dwn first appears in the historical record serving in Picardy and Normandy in 1369 under John of Gaunt, the first Duke of Lancaster, who appointed him steward of the
BLEDDYN ap CYNFYN (d. 1075), prince He was the son of Cynfyn ap Gwerstan, otherwise unknown, and Angharad, widow of Llywelyn ap Seisyll (died 1023), and mother of the famous Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (died 1063). Late authorities supply Gwerstan with a distinguished pedigree, but the name has the air of being a derivative of the English Werestan. As half-brothers of Gruffudd, Bleddyn and his brother Rhiwallon succeeded to his domains
GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD FYCHAN (fl. 15th century), poet Of Tir Iarll in Glamorganshire He is apparently the person referred to as 'Gruffudd mydrydd a enwir gŵr o Fetws Tir Iarll' whose pedigree is given by G. T. Clark in Limbus Patrum, 510. A number of his cywyddau have been preserved, including an elegy on the death of Henry VI, a number of vaticinatory poems, and three love poems, two poems composed by Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Gruffydd ap Dafydd
HYWEL ap DAFYDD LLWYD ab Y GOF (fl. c. 1500), poet nothing is known of his life, but some examples of his work remain in manuscript, these being love poems and an elegy to the poet Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.
HYWEL ap DAFYDD ap IEUAN ap RHYS (fl. c. 1450-1480) Raglan, poet HYWEL DAFI of Raglan, according to Peniarth MS 101 (262), a poet of whose work many examples remain in manuscript. These include a few religious and love poems, and a large number addressed in the standard convention to various members of the ruling families of his period in South Wales, e.g. Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Dynevor, Phylip ap Tomas of Llangoed in Brecknock, Rhys ap Siancyn of Glyn Nedd

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