Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARADOG FYNACH (d. 1124), recluse drove him from the court and he resolved to embrace religion. He first found a foothold at Llandaff, where he was tonsured by bishop Herwald; ere long, he was attracted to the solitary life and made a home for himself as monk at the deserted and overgrown church of Llangenydd in Gower. His next move was to S. Davids, where he was ordained priest; the 'island' of Barry (Llanrhian) on the north coast of
CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat accompanied Bonner to Rome on legal business concerning the 'divorce' (on which see S.P. Hen. VIII, vii, 269 n. and Harpsfield, More, in E.E.T.S., 1932, 223). On a later mission to Bologna (1534), he was charged with the appeal 'from the Bishop of Rome ill-informed and in fear of the imperialists to the Bishop of Rome better informed and in more liberty.' On his return he served as commissioner for
CLYNNOG, MORYS (c. 1525 - 1581), Roman Catholic theologian His birthplace, in all probability, was Clynnog-fawr inCaernarfonshire. He went up to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.C.L. in 1548. After being successively chaplain to (cardinal) Reginald Pole, rector of Orpington, Kent., and dean of Shoreham and Croydon, he was, in 1556, appointed rector of Corwen, by Goldwell, bishop of St Asaph. On the death of William Glyn in 1558, he was raised
CONSTANTINE, GEORGE (c . 1500 - 1560?), cleric executed with Anne Boleyn. Constantine was brought to S. Davids diocese by bishop Barlow, who made him vicar of Llawhaden. Following some unguarded remarks to John Barlow in 1539, Constantine was denounced to Cromwell as a 'sacramentary' and was lodged in the Tower. He regained favour, however, and became registrar of S. Davids in 1546, royal visitor of the diocese in 1547, archdeacon of Carmarthen 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
CYFEILIOG (d. 927), bishop of Llandaff
CYFFIN, ROGER (fl. c. 1587-1609), a poet of Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire. Two of his free metre poems and a number of cywyddau and englynion are preserved in manuscript. The strict metre poems include eulogies, elegies, begging poems (to persons from North and South Wales), religious, moral, and love poems. Poetic controversies or ymrysonau took place between him and Gruffudd Hafren (Cwrtmawr MS 206B (101)), Richard Davies, bishop of S
DAFYDD ab IEUAN ab IORWERTH (d. 1503), bishop of St Asaph
DAFYDD ap BLEDDYN (d. 1346), bishop Bishop of St Asaph, succeeded on the death of Llywelyn ap Llywelyn in 1314. According to Iolo Goch (ed. C. Ashton, 273), he was 'of the tribe of Uchtryd ' and, in accordance with this, the pedigrees make him a brother of Ithel Anwyl, and a nephew of Ithel Fychan, both important figures in Flintshire in the early part of the century (Powys Fadog, iii, 106, iv, 154). He may be the ' David ap
DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1246), prince two brothers; Dafydd took a treacherous advantage of the occasion to seize Gruffydd and his son Owain, who were imprisoned in Cricieth castle. Thus, when Llywelyn died on 11 April 1240 there was no obstacle to the succession of Dafydd. He had the powerful support of the late prince's chief counsellor, Ednyfed Fychan, of Einon Fychan, one of Llywelyn's regular envoys, and of the bishop of St Asaph
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor held this office at the end of the reign of Richard II. In November 1397 he received the prebend of Llandwrog. With the chapter he rendered account on 19 May 1399 of the temporalities of the see, which had been in their hands since the death of bishop Swaffham on 24 June 1398. At one time he held a position in the church of Clynnog-fawr. This is all the contemporary evidence. Browne Willis
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard Trevor was buried in Llanallgo and added that some of the parishioners could then indicate the site of his grave. His poems - they are all in the cywydd form - consist of eight 'petitions' (the one in which a request is made for a concubine and a harp is, perhaps, the best known), four 'eulogies' (among them is one to ' Deiniol Bangor,' i.e. bishop Daniel), three religious or philosophical cywyddau

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