Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MEILYR BRYDYDD (fl. c . 1100-1137), chief court-poet to Gruffudd ap Cynan at Aberffraw. He is considered the earliest of the 'Gogynfeirdd.' Meilyr, and Gwalchmai (his son), and his grand-children, appear to be the likeliest known instance in Wales of a line of hereditary poets, as was usual in Ireland, holding land in return for their eulogies of a particular line of rulers. Trefeilyr and Trewalchmai remain as place-names in Anglesey. Sir J. Morris
GWALCHMAI ap MEILYR (fl. 1130-1180), court poet Archaiology of Wales is the work of his son, Meilyr. In one of the poems to Owain Gwynedd there is internal evidence that Gwalchmai was the son of Meilyr, court poet to Gruffudd ap Cynan (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 144b, 16-17 - 'My father sang the praises of his powerful royal father'). The two references in Gwalchmai's poems to the fact that he sang to Cadwallawn, son of Gruffudd ap Cynan, prove
RHIWALLON ap CYNFYN (d. 1070), king of Powys Second son of Cynfyn ap Gwerstan by Angharad, daughter of Maredudd ap Owen, and brother of Bleddyn. Co-ruler of Powys from 1063, he was killed at the battle of Mechain. His son Meilyr died in 1081, and his daughter, Gwladus, married Rhys ap Tewdwr.
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
RHYS AP TEWDWR (d. 1093), king of Deheubarth (1078-1093) that Rhys and Gruffudd defeated Caradog together with his allies Trahaearn ap Caradog (lord of Arwystli, Ardudwy, and Meirionydd and the most powerful prince in northern Wales) and Meilyr ap Rhiwallon of Powys. A more elaborate account of uncertain objectivity comes from the History of Gruffudd ap Cynan where Gruffudd returns from exile in Ireland with a fleet provided by Diarmait son of Enna, a
EINION ap GWALCHMAI (fl. 1203-1223), poet and producing half the wedding ring which he had kept. There is another tale of his being cured by ' Friar Gwryd ' of a seven years' affliction. In an englyn in which part of the second tale is told, Einion is definitely described as the son of Gwalchmai ap Meilyr, and this is probably correct.
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS CAERWYN (1912 - 1999), Welsh and Celtic scholar Cymru [The University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language], 1970-99, and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies Poets of the Princes Series, 8 volumes, 1991-6: Caerwyn, together with Professor Peredur Lynch, was responsible for the whole of Volume I of this series, Gwaith Meilyr Brydydd a'i Ddisgynyddion [The Work of Meilyr Brydydd and his Descendants], 1994. He was also able to
ELIDIR SAIS (fl. end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th.), a poet . In Rec. Caern., 48, Meilyr, Dafydd, and Elidir are given as the names of three sons of Gwalchmai. Gwilym Ddu's words from the wise men of Anglesey are very understandable if this Elidir is our poet.
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd , Meirionnydd, Rhos, Rhufoniog and Dyffryn Clwyd were under the rule of Gwynedd. He died, blind and decrepit, in 1137, and was buried in the cathedral church of Bangor. An elegy upon him was sung by Meilyr, his pencerdd. His wife, Angharad, daughter of Owain ab Edwin, survived him by twenty-five years. It was part of the traditional lore of the Welsh bards that Gruffudd ap Cynan had made certain regulations
MEILYR ap GWALCHMAI, poet - see GWALCHMAI ap MEILYR

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