Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOPCYN ap TOMAS (c. 1330 - 1403), gentleman living at Ynysdawy in the parish of Llangyfelach, Glamorganshire; son of Tomas ab Einion, i.e. the Einion who, Iolo Morganwg maintained, was Einion Offeiriad. Iolo wove all manner of stories about this family, making Hopcyn a bard and the author of romances, parables, grammars, etc.; what we have here is an attempt to explain the references to Hopcyn which are found in poem by bards of the 14th
HOPCYN, WILIAM (1700 - 1741), poet From Llangynwyd in Tir Iarll, Glamorganshire, of whom hardly anything is known. Iolo Morganwg maintained in his old age that he was the person of that name who was buried in Llangynwyd in 1741; that view was accepted by persons living in the 19th century. It was also said that he was a tiler and a plasterer. Iolo claimed in his earlier years, however, that he and Hopcyn had been fellow-pupils in
MEURUG ab IORWERTH (fl. c. 1320-1370), one of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd' bards One example of his work is preserved in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and some other MSS., this being an awdl addressed to Hopcyn ap Tomas of Ynys Dawy (Ynystawe) in Glamorgan.
IEUAN LLWYD ab Y GARGAM (fl. 14th century), poet One of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd.' No details of his career are known, but an awdl composed by him to Hopcyn ap Tomas of Ynysdawy, Glamorganshire, is preserved in the 'Red Book of Hergest' and some other manuscripts. It is also contained in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, but there the poet's name is given as Iorwerth Llwyd ab y Gargam.
MADOG DWYGRAIG (fl. c. 1370), poet one of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd' group. A number of his awdlau remain in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and other MSS. They include religious and satirical poems, and also ones addressed to Hopcyn ap Thomas ab Einion of Ynys Dawy, Gruffudd ap Madog of Llechwedd Ystrad, and Morgan Dafydd ap Llywarch of Ystrad Tywi. A number of these were included in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
LLYWELYN GOCH ap MEURIG HEN (fl. c. 1360-1390), poet One of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd,' and a native of Merioneth. A large number of his poems are preserved in MSS., including a religious poem, poems addressed to Dafydd ap Cadwaladr of Bachelldref, Goronwy ap Tudur of Penmynydd, and to the South Walians - Hopcyn ap Tomas of Ynys Dawy, Llywelyn Fychan and his brother Rhydderch, and Rhys ap Gruffudd ab Ednyfed. His elegy to Lleucu Llwyd (Lucy
POWEL, WATCYN (c. 1600 - 1655) Pen-y-fai, Tir Iarll, gentleman, bard, and genealogist son of Hopcyn Powel and nephew of Anthony Powel, Llwydarth. He was instructed in the bardic art; six cywyddau by him, in the hand of Tomas ab Ieuan, Tre'r-bryn, survive in N.L.W. Llanover MS. B 1. Very little is known of him but the elegies written in his memory by Edward Dafydd and David Williams (Dafydd o'r Nant) show that he, like his uncle, was a genealogist and skilled in the art of heraldry
EINION OFFEIRIAD (fl. c. 1320), the person whose name is associated with the earliest Welsh grammar or metrical grammar which we possess ynrrydedd a moliant') of the same Rhys ap Gruffydd. He is not referred to in the earliest manuscripts of the grammar except as one who fashioned three metres. Apart from this we know nothing of him. Iolo Morganwg tried to show that he was grandfather of Hopcyn ap Tomas ab Einion of Ynystawe, but there is no foundation for this statement.
HOPKIN, LEWIS (c. 1708 - 1771), poet Son of Lewis Hopkin of Llanbedr-ar-fynydd (Peterston-super-Montem), Glamorganshire, one of the descendants of Hopcyn Thomas Phylip, Gelli'r-fid, a writer of cwndidau. He learnt the craft of a carpenter; he became a master of other crafts also. When he was a young man he moved to the parish of Llandyfodwg and it was there, at Hendre Ifan Goch, that he made his home until he died in 1771. He became
MADDOCKS, ANN (the Maid of Cefn Ydfa; 1704 - 1727) been discovered; that the 'Maid' was in love with the poet ' Wil Hopcyn ' - that he composed the verses ' Watching the White Wheat ' to her - and that she died of a broken heart. This story has been fully discussed by G. J. Williams, in Y Llenor, 1927 and 1928; see also his Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 251-9.
TOMAS ap IEUAN ap RHYS (c. 1510 - 1617), writer of cwndidau (short religious songs or carols) writing religious poems but also when he praised the landed gentry and when composing elegies. He also wrote daroganau (prophetic poems) and thus was of some repute in Glamorgan as a prophet. It was probably this tradition which induced Iolo Morganwg to concoct so many strange tales concerning him. These fictions were repeated in books of the 19th century. His elegy was written by his friend Hopcyn
JACOB, HENRY THOMAS (1864 - 1957), minister (Congl.), lecturer, writer and poet was a master at portraying old characters, and he aroused interest and admiration throughout Wales. Among his lectures (in Welsh) were: 'My father's tale', 'The old collier', 'The old precentor', 'General Booth', 'The Black Man's Land'. It was his interest in church missionary work, and his service to it, that prompted him to write Dilyn y wawr, and a biography of Hopcyn Rees. He also published

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