Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, GWYN (BODVEL) (died 1611) was imprisoned for opposition to the earl of Leicester (son of his father's patron) as ranger of Snowdon forest, and while he was still in durance a commission was issued (1578) to Nicholas Robinson, bishop of Bangor, and Elis Prys to investigate his relations, as a 'known papist,' with his brother-in-law Hugh Owen of Plas Du (1538 - 1618) in exile at Brussels. No
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, Lewis Bayly, bishop of Bangor. Either he or his nephew and namesake (below) was a prolific writer of englynion. HENRY BODWRDA, fourth son, became a Fellow of S. John's and a schoolmaster in England, and shared with his brother William a legacy from the master, Owen Gwyn. GRIFFITH (or GRIFFIN) BODWRDA (1621 - 1679), politician and placeman, was the third son of the above John Bodwrda, and of Margaret
BOWEN, JOHN (1815 - 1859), bishop of Sierra Leone considerable means to missionary work, paying frequent visits to the Anglican missions in the Near and Middle East. In 1857 he was consecrated bishop of Sierra Leone, but died at Freetown 28 May 1859.
BRADNEY, Sir JOSEPH ALFRED (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian such as (a) Genealogical Memoranda relating to the families of Hopkins of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, co. Monmouth, and Probyn of Newland, co. Gloucester… 1889; (b) The Diary of Walter Powell, 1907; (c) Acts of the Bishop of Llandaff, 1908; (d) Llyfr Baglan, 1910; (e) (ed.) Hanes Llanffwyst by Thomas Evan Watkins, Eiddil Ifor, 1922; (f) A Dissertation on Three Books, 1923; (g) A History of the Free
BRAOSE family occupied his Welsh territories, William and his family fleeing to Ireland. Here they were pursued, his wife and eldest son being captured, eventually to be starved to death at Windsor. William himself escaped to France, where he died 9 August 1211. He was buried at the Abbey of S. Victor, Paris. The claim to the Braose lands was taken up by his son, GILES, bishop of Hereford, who, in 1213, returned from
BRIOC (fl. 6th century), saint angelic vision before the birth of their child. When Brioc was a youth, his parents sent him to Paris where bishop Germanus fostered and educated him, and where, too, Brioc accomplished many miracles and was ordained to the priesthood. In his twenty-fifth year, Brioc returned to Corotica and helped to reconvert the region to Christianity. Departing from his native land some years later, Brioc crossed to
BRISCOE, THOMAS (1813 - 1895), cleric and scholar Born 30 June 1813 at Wrexham, son of Richard Briscoe, druggist; educated at Ruthin School and Jesus College, Oxford; B.A. (First Class Lit. Hum., 1833; M.A., 1836; B.D., 1843; D.D., 1868). Ordained deacon 1836, priest 1837, by the bishop of Oxford; Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 1834-59; tutor, 1835-9 and 1843-57; vice-principal, 1849-58; perpetual curate of Henllan, Denbighshire, 1830-40
BULKELEY family knighted (about 1534), and his brother ARTHUR (died 1552) became bishop of Bangor. The greatest of these early knights was undoubtedly the third, RICHARD (died 1621), head of the family from 1572 to 1621, friend of queen Elizabeth and bitter antagonist to the earl of Leicester's schemes in Wales. For a generation after his death, the affairs of Baron Hill went under a cloud; the alleged poisoning of the
BURGESS, THOMAS (1756 - 1837), bishop Born 18 November 1756 at Odiham, Hants., and educated there and at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he entered as a scholar in 1775. He took his B.A. in December 1778 and his M.A. in 1782. He was appointed Fellow of his college in 1783 and was ordained deacon and priest by bishop Cornwall of Winchester in 1784. In 1794 he became a prebendary of Durham cathedral, and he also
CADWGAN (d. 1241), bishop of Bangor Worcester and those of Tewkesbury (using a common source), which must be due to some confusion. Nothing would be known of the origin of the new bishop, were it not for the picture drawn by Gerald of Wales in Speculum Ecclesiae - a picture which wants nothing but the name. The portrait is drawn in a spirit of reckless ill will and its details can only be used with the utmost reserve. Nevertheless, it may
CARADOG ap GRUFFYDD ap RHYDDERCH (d. 1081) third and more formidable opponent appeared in Rhys ap Tewdwr in 1081. Thus the stage was set for the famous battle of Mynydd Carn fought somewhere in northern Dyfed, where Rhys, fortified by the approval of bishop Sulien of S. Davids and with the help of Gruffudd ap Cynan, inflicted a crushing defeat upon Caradog and his northern allies. Caradog is no more heard of; he left a son, Owain, on whom see
CARADOG ap IESTYN (fl. 1130), founder of the family of 'Avene' in Glamorgan He was a son of Iestyn ap Gwrgant. Iestyn is known to history from two entries in Liber Landavensis; in the first he appears low down in the list of lay witnesses to a grant in Edlygion made to bishop Herwald by Caradog ap Gruffydd; in the second he is himself a ruler, with a warband for whose misdeeds he makes amends to the same bishop by the gift of a manor in the Ely valley. It would

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