Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GORONWY GYRIOG (fl. c. 1310-1360), poet some of the poems attributed to Gutun Ceiriog and Gutun Cyriog in B.M. Add. MS. 14866; Cardiff MS. 26; Llanstephan MS 47, Llanstephan MS 122, Llanstephan MS 134; Merthyr Tydfil MS.; NLW MS 1578B, NLW MSS 13061B; and Peniarth MS 54 i, Peniarth MS 54 ii, Peniarth MS 112, Peniarth MS 239.
GWERFUL MECHAIN (1462? - 1500), poetess All that is known of her is that she was the daughter of Hywel Fychan of Mechain in Powys, confirmation of which is to be found in a cywydd written by Dafydd Llwyd, who sent Llywelyn ap Gutun to her with an expression of his love. It is known that bits of her poems were still preserved in the memory of country folk as late as the 19th century, for both Ap Vychan and Sir Owen M. Edwards refer to
GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist Dared,' together with a paraphrase of 'Brut y Tywysogion' and a chronicle of his own period down to 1471. His, too, is our earliest copy of the Welsh 'Book of Heraldry,' and of the 'Grammar' which contains the bardic rules laid down by Dafydd ab Edmwnd in the Carmarthen eisteddfod of the supposed date of 1451; Gutun Owain's 'Grammar' and his arrangement of the cynganeddion and of the strict metres
RHYS PENNARDD (fl. c. 1480), a poet Aberystwyth. Llywelyn ap Gutun wrote a satirical poem addressed to Rhys and the two poets Hywel ap Rheinallt and Lewis Môn.
RHOBERT AP DAFYDD LLWYD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet Sir William Gruffydd of Penrhyn), to Elis Prys of Plas Iolyn, and to Siôn Conwy. Gutun Tomas and he composed satires upon each other.
DAFYDD ab IEUAN ab IORWERTH (d. 1503), bishop of St Asaph According to the pedigrees, he was descended from Tudur ap Rhys Sais. The family was seated in Trefor, near Llangollen, perhaps in ' Gavella Rosseriet ' (G. P. Jones, Extent of Chirkland, 15). He became warden of Ruthin and abbot of Valle Crucis, succeeding in the latter office John ap Richard (Peniarth MS 176 (53)). As abbot, he was a liberal patron of the bards, and both Gutun Owain and Guto'r
HYWEL ap RHEINALLT (fl. c. 1471-1494), poet him by Llywelyn ap Gutun in that poet's ymryson with Lewys Môn (Llanstephan MS 122 (620)). No details regarding his life are known, but he was obviously a native of some part of North Wales.
GUTUN GOCH BRYDYDD (fl. c. 1550?), poet
LLYWELYN ap GUTUN (fl. c. 1480), poet
JONES, RHYS (1713 - 1801), antiquary and poet additions, by Cynddelw (Robert Ellis, 1812 - 1875). It should be observed that Rhys Jones was living at Tyddyn Mawr and not at Blaenau when he published his Gorchestion, which is a selection of the works of Aneirin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and other poets; Rhys Jones wrote his awdl in praise of William Vaughan of Cors-y-gedol on the pattern of the awdlau by Gutun Owen and William Llŷn included in this
GRIFFITH, THOMAS TAYLOR (1795 - 1876), surgeon and antiquary manuscripts descended to his great-grandson Thomas Taylor Griffith, and he exhibited them at the Cambrian Archaeological Association meeting at Wrexham in 1874. They were later (1910), deposited at the National Library of Wales, and in 1923 became its property - NLW MSS 7006-10. The most important of them is NLW MS 7006D, the famous 'Black Book of Basingwerk' (see under Gutun Owain). NLW MS 7008E is
HOLBACHE, DAVID (fl. 1377-1423), lawyer, founder of Oswestry Grammar School Despite his (as yet unexplained) English surname, he was a Welshman; according to the pedigrees in Harl. MS. 4181 (Powys Fadog, iv, 93) and Peniarth MS 129 (by his fellow-countryman Gutun Owain), he was son of Ieuan Goch ap Dafydd Goch ap Iorwerth ap Cynwrig ap Heilyn (of Pentre-heilyn, in Ellesmere) ap Trahaearn ab Iddon; he had lands at Dudleston in Chirkland; he was steward of the town and

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