Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWENFREWI (fl. early 7th century), saint her sanctuary at Holywell, where she is supposed to have been miraculously restored to life by S. Beuno, there formerly stood, it was believed, a chapel founded by Beuno himself. That she was subsequently in close touch with Saint Eleri, spending her later years with the latter at Gwytherin (where she was in the first place interred), may also probably be regarded as fact. Her personal cult, however
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH (Gwrtheyrn; 1846 - 1915), littérateur Born 7 October 1846 at Hendrebach, Gwytherin, Denbighshire. After very little schooling, he was apprenticed at 10 with a weaver at Ysbyty Ifan, and benefited greatly from the vigorous literary and musical life of Pentrefoelas in those days. He was afterwards for a while at Llanrwst, in the employ of Gwilym Cowlyd, but returned to his weaving, living after his marriage (1869) in the house attached
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator ; cursal prebendary of S. Asaph, 1664; canon, 1666; vicar of Llanasa, Flintshire, 1666; rector of Gwytherin, 1675; vicar of Abergele, 1684; of Betws-yn-Rhos, 1684; of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, 1696. He held the last three livings at the time of his death, and was buried in Abergele churchyard, where there is a Latin epitaph on his tomb. His 'information' relating to the ' Popish Plot ' was printed in The
OWEN, MATTHEW (1631 - 1679) Llangar, Edeirnion, poet poem to Richard Hughes, vicar of Gwytherin (a living which he held from 1660-74). In a late manuscript of the latter (NLW MS 668C), the poet is called 'Mathew Goch, alias Owen.' Matthew Owen was a keen Anglican, and turned in the same circle as Huw Morys and Edward Morris. He was a competent composer of englynion, and one englyn of his, viz. 'Aneddfawr santaidd noddfa…' can be seen above the church
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' he tried to tempt Henry Cromwell), in the ecclesiastical manor of Gogarth (which he offered to re-sell to the Mostyn family), in the manors of Llandegla, Gwytherin, and Meliden (bought by a syndicate for £3,797 in 1650) and Uwchterfyn (c. 1652) and an offer to buy up a mortgage on Brynkinallt (1653) - were normal and legal transactions, and it was on the ground that his absence in Ireland had

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