Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister facts about him may be mentioned. In the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald, 11 December 1841, he entered a strong protest (unusual for a Methodist of his day) against the attempt of the Anglesey presbytery to 'interfere with my right of judgement in political matters' by forbidding its members to attend a Free Trade meeting at Caernarvon. And in April 1854 a meeting to promote a university college in Wales
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer whose wholesome laugh gladdened every company, and a man held in high esteem by his students and these to whom he ministered. On 31 March, 1977, he suffered a heart attack, and was taken to the Caernarfonshire and Anglesey Hospital, Bangor. It was there that he died on April 1. His funeral service was held on Tuesday, 5 April, with a public service at Pen-dref Chapel, Bangor, and a private service at
CLYNNOG, MORYS (c. 1525 - 1581), Roman Catholic theologian to the see of Bangor but, before he was consecrated, queen Mary died and he went into voluntary exile rather than conform with the new dispensation under Elizabeth. In 1561 he, bishop Goldwell, and Gruffydd Robert, archdeacon of Anglesey, arrived in Rome. Goldwell was appointed warden of the English Hospital in that city, Gruffydd Robert became chaplain in 1564, and Morys Clynnog ' Camerarius ' in
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist precentor of Bangor cathedral, 1810-38, rector of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, 1814, and Llanllechid, 1821, dean of Bangor and rector of Gaerwen in Anglesey and Gyffin, Conway, 1838. He married (1) 14 April 1810, Mary Anne, daughter of bishop Majendie of Bangor (she died October 1823 leaving one son, afterwards the Rev. H. J. Cotton, rector of Dalbury, Derby); and (2) 6 June 1826, Mary Laurens, daughter of
CUNEDDA WLEDIG (fl. 450?), British prince tradition, rounded off the work of the family by the final defeat of the Irish of Anglesey. All this may be reasonably accepted as showing how, about the time that the Roman authority came to an end in Britain, a Brythonic Christian chief from the banks of the Forth drove the Goidels from north-west Wales and laid the foundation of the Gwynedd of the Middle Ages. It has been suggested that Cunedda and his
CYBI (fl. 550), saint himself within the walls of a dismantled Roman fort. The 'clas,' or monastic community, which he founded, had a long history; it continued as a collegiate church throughout the Middle Ages and had twelve prebendaries in the 16th century. The picturesque legend of the weekly meetings of Seiriol Wyn (White) and Cybi Felyn (Yellow) at Clorach in the midst of Anglesey is a bit of modern folk-lore, but the
CYNAN DINDAETHWY (d. 816), prince was, according to the oldest pedigree, the son of Rhodri, a grandson of Cadwaladr (died 664). Inasmuch as Rhodri (usually found with the epithet 'Molwynog') died in 754 and Cynan is first mentioned in 813, this descent is open to question. His brief appearance in history gathers round a struggle with a certain Hywel, whom Dr. David Powel treats as his brother, for the possession of Anglesey. In
CYNGAR (fl. 6th century), saint river Thaw. In Glamorgan he established two monasteries at places not exactly located, and came into contact with a king Poulentus and a prince named Pebiau. According to the 'Life' of Saint Cybi, which states that that saint and S. Cungar were kinsmen, S. Cungar accompanied S. Cybi first to Ireland and then to Anglesey. A Cyngar is the patron saint of Llangefni in Anglesey and of Hope in Flintshire
CYNWRIG HIR (fl. 1093) Edeirnion The History of Gruffydd ap Cynan relates how Cynwrig came to Chester, where Gruffydd had been a prisoner of earl Hugh for twelve years, how he saw the prince lying in chains, bore him away while the burgesses were having a meal, sheltered him secretly under his roof, and then took him to Anglesey. If the story is true, it was an event of great consequence to Welsh history in view of the
DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1203), king of Gwynedd that year with a raid on Tegeingl, in which he carried off much booty. The death of his father in November 1170 opened up a new prospect; he and his brother Rhodri attacked and slew their half-brother, Hywel ab Owain, in a battle near Pentraeth in Anglesey. In 1173 he made an onset upon another half-brother, Maelgwn ab Owain, and drove him from Anglesey, to find a refuge in Ireland. 1174 was the year
DAFYDD ALAW (fl. 1550), poet Anglesey, c. 1535-70. There is a reference to his book of pedigrees in Peniarth MS 134.
DAFYDD ap GWILYM (fl. 1340-1370), poet all parts of Wales : he knew Gruffudd Gryg of Anglesey and Madog Benfras of Maelor. He sang to Newborough in Anglesey, visited the cathedral at Bangor, and eulogized the dean, Hywel ap Goronwy. Men and women of noble birth in Ceredigion were also the subjects of eulogies by him. It has been generally supposed that Dafydd's chief patron was Ifor ap Llywelyn, or Ifor Hael, of Bassaleg (now in

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