Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ITHEL DDU (fl. second half of 14th century), poet He was most probably an Anglesey man - 'of the land of Meilyr,' says Iolo Goch, though Iolo also locates him in Llŷn, and indeed further transports him to Bardsey. Iolo styles him 'a famous poet,' but all that we have to substantiate that claim is a single cywydd, preserved in two copies, Peniarth MS 77 (441) and Peniarth MS 78 (135). It would indeed seem that Ithel was no professional bard, but
IOLO GOCH (c. 1320 - c. 1398), poet to Iolo in the manuscripts the oldest which can be dated is the awdl to Dafydd ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph from 1314 to 1346, and one of the latest is the cywydd to Ieuan Trevor II, bishop of St Asaph, composed, in all probability, in 1397. Between these two poles we can trace the following cywyddau written by him: panegyric upon Edward III, end of 1347; elegy upon Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd who died
IOLO GOCH (c. 1325 - c. 1400), poet Iolo Goch was a poet from the Vale of Clwyd, son of Ithel Goch ap Cynwrig ab Iorwerth ap Cynwrig Ddewis Herod from the lineage of Hedd ab Alunog of Uwch Aled, one of the Fifteen Tribes of Gwynedd. His mother was Ithel Goch's second wife, and is not named in his genealogy [?]. The names of two brothers are recorded, Gruffudd and Tudur Goch. Iolo was originally a hypocoristic form of Iorwerth (the
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
RHYS GOGH ap RHICCERT The only reliable information about him which we have is contained in pedigrees (e.g. Peniarth MS 178) from which we learn that he was a grandson of Einion ap Collwyn who lived in Glamorgan at the time of the Norman Conquest, and that he was an ancestor of Rhys Brydydd of Llanharan and other well-known poets of the same line, such as Lewys Morgannwg. Twenty poems are attributed to him in Iolo MSS
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet T. C. Evans (Cadrawd) thought that he was the man of the same name who was born in Llangynwyd, Glamorganshire, in 1705. According to Cadrawd, the older people spoke of him as one who had kept school in the parish. Iolo Morganwg listed him with the literary men who were self-educated. He lived afterwards in Ystradyfodwg and perhaps in Glyncorrwg and Cwm-gwrach. It is quite possible that he was an
DAVIES, EDWARD (Iolo Trefaldwyn; 1819 - 1887), poet and eisteddfodwr pryddest ' Goleuni ' (Light). There was considerable demand for his services at local eisteddfodau and competitive meetings as adjudicator, reciter, and singer of penillion. Shortly before his death he published a book of verse, Caneuon Iolo Trefaldwyn. He could turn out an excellent englyn and was one of the best epitaph writers of his day. He was for twenty-one years precentor of Zion C.M. chapel
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary Wales in 1802; he it was who drew up the Rheolau a Threfniadau of that body published in 1803. He was very little in touch with his London friends after about 1805. A little later on, another generation arose which was interested in the history and literature of Wales - the men of the ' Cymdeithasau Taleithiol ' (Provincial Societies) who regarded Iolo as one of the principal authorities on those
BRADFORD, JOHN (1706 - 1785), weaver, fuller, and dyer that he interested himself in the religious controversies which were a feature of the age. Iolo Morganwg was one of his pupils; after the death of Bradford, Iolo invented all kinds of stories about his learning and about his connection with the system of the bardic 'gorsedd' - that druidic and Unitarian system which, according to Iolo, had persisted throughout the centuries in Glamorgan, and
DAFYDD, EDWARD (c. 1600 - 1678?) Margam, bard His birth may be assigned to c. 1600 -there is a cywydd which he wrote in 1623. Iolo Morganwg said that his bardic teacher was Llywelyn Siôn, of the neighbouring parish of Laleston. He was the most prominent of the Glamorgan bards of the 17th century; in all probability he can be regarded as the last of them who was a professional bard. He sang awdlau and cywyddau to the landed gentry of
POWEL, ANTHONY (c. 1560 - 1618/19), gentleman and genealogist ) is ' Llyfr Du Pantylliwydd ' (N.L.W. Llanover MS. E 3), which contains genealogies and the material usually found in the books by heraldic genealogists; this manuscript is in all probability, in his hand. Iolo Morganwg, however, attributed to him all manner of things - a 'brut' (or chronicle), a history of eisteddfodau, triads, a history of the bards of Glamorgan, etc. Iolo maintained also that
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

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