Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN ap MOEL Y PANTRI (d. 1440) Llanwnnog, poet poems on the outlaws of Coed y Graig (and from suggestions in some of his other poems) it could be thought that the poet was himself one of the band. He turned to religion toward the end of his life, and was buried in the monastery of Strata Marcella. Guto'r Glyn and Rhys Goch Eryri wrote elegies on his death. Apparently some of his poems have been misattributed to Iolo Goch (see Iolo Goch ac Eraill
POWEL, WATCYN (c. 1600 - 1655) Pen-y-fai, Tir Iarll, gentleman, bard, and genealogist . As far as is known, however, none of his work is extant. All kinds of things are attributed to him in the manuscripts of Iolo Morganwg, but it can be concluded that they are all fictitious. It is possible, nevertheless, that some of them may be based on manuscripts which Iolo had seen in Tir Iarll and the surrounding districts.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Gwilym Morgannwg; 1778 - 1835), poet Born at Melin Gallau in the parish of Llanddety, Brecknock, 20 November 1778, son of William Thomas. The family went to live at Melin Pontycapel, Cefncoedycymer, c. 1781. Taliesin ab Iolo says, in a letter, that when he was 7 years of age he began to work on a coal level owned by his father. Nothing much is said about his early education, but it is stated that he began to write when he was still
SIMON, BEN (c. 1703 - 1793), dissenter and copyist There is a record of the burial of ' Benjamin Simon, a Pauper,' at Abergwili, 1 March 1793, and Iolo Morganwg has left for us in his ' Agricultural Observations,' 1795 (NLW MS 13115B, i.e. Llanover MS. C 28) a picture of the old man in his poverty. Iolo says that he was 90 years of age at the time of his death and that he had been a bookbinder by trade. Another tradition, however, has it that he
WILLIAMS, IOLO ANEURIN (1890 - 1962), journalist, author and art historian vice-president of the Zoological Society of London. He wrote Flowers of marsh and stream (1946) and was an experienced field naturalist. He honoured the memory of his ancestor Iolo Morganwg (Edward WILLIAMS), a collection of whose papers he presented to the National Library of Wales, by taking a keen interest in Welsh matters, including the language, and he served on the Council of the National
WILLIAMS, TALIESIN (1787 - 1847), poet and author Son of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg). He was born, according to tradition in the Vale of Glamorgan, in Cardiff prison on 9 July 1787, and was christened at Flimston on 16 September He was educated at a school at Cowbridge and then worked with his father as stonemason and carver on gravestones. He kept a school at Gileston and, c. 1813, was appointed assistant in a school kept by the Rev. David
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar . degree for a dissertation on ' The verbal forms in the Mabinogion and Bruts '. In the meantime, with the encouragement of J.H. Davies and with the assistance of an additional scholarship he set about studying the Llanover manuscripts, which were donated to the National Library in 1917. That is how he began to take an interest in the life and work of Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams), which became the
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon A friend and patron of Iolo Goch, who addressed two cywyddau of petition to him (printed in I.G.E., 1st ed. 55-61, 2nd ed. 49-55), and commemorated him in an elegy, printed in Ashton's edition of Iolo, 344-53. Ithel's family seat was Coed-y-mynydd in Ysgeifiog parish, Flintshire; he was well-born - Ashton (op. cit. 267, 325-6) prints, from Dwnn and Powys Fadog, relevant details of his pedigree
DAFYDD, MEURIG (fl. second half of the 16th century), professional bard, staunch Papist, and one of the most important literary characters in Glamorgan genealogist and historian and discharged the duties of a 'herehaut' in the court at Ludlow. His poetical works, written in his own hand, are to be found in Llanover MS. B. 5. Composed in the strict metres, they are cold, stereotyped, and uninspired, with none of the fire which characterized the poetry of his master Lewys Morgannwg. The fictions invented by Iolo Morganwg about the part played by Meurig
MADOG BENFRAS (fl. c. 1320-1360), poet of Marchwiail, Denbighshire. His pedigree is given in Powys Fadog thus: ' Madog Benfras ap Gruffudd ap Iorwerth, arglwydd Sonlli, ab Einion Goch ab Ieuaf ap Llywarch ap Ieuaf ap Niniaw ap Cynfrig ap Rhiwallawn.' His two brothers, Llywelyn Llogell (parish priest of Marchwiail), and Ednyfed, were also poets; according to Iolo Morganwg their bardic teacher was Llywelyn ap Gwilym of Emlyn. Iolo also
JONES, Syr THOMAS (d. 1622?), cleric and poet Llandeilo Bertholeu' in Iolo MS. 40. This was printed in Cymru Fydd, 1889, 404-6, in Hen Gwndidau, 187-92 (ed. Hopkin-James and T. C. Evans), and in Parry-Williams's Canu Rhydd Cynnar, 367-72. It will be noticed that the Iolo MS. alone connects the poet with the parish which is today oddly called ' Llantilio Pertholey ' (near Abergavenny); and Iolo Morganwg has a note on the poet (quoted in Hen Gwndidau
DAFYDD ap PHYLIP ap RHYS Syr (fl. c. 1500-1540), poet (probably in holy orders) who was from the parish of Llangyfelach, near Swansea, according to Iolo Morganwg (NLW MSS 13062B (467)). Only one of his poems remains, a cywydd in praise of Sir Rhys ap Thomas.

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