Dictionary of Welsh Biography

IEUAN TEW manuscript, but it is often difficult to distinguish between the poems of the two respective poets. A bardic controversy, or ymryson, occurred between the elder and the Mastr Harri, and between the younger and Bedo Hafesp; he also took part in another, together with the three poets, Siôn Phylip, Wiliam Llŷn, and Hywel Ceiriog, against Wiliam Cynwal and Huw Llŷn.
JONES, JOHN (c. 1578-1583 - 1658?) Gellilyfdy, Loveday, Ysgeifiog, calligrapher and transcriber of manuscripts Seisnigawl arfer John Jones' (this Siôn ap Wiliam, by English custom, is called John Jones). His grandfather had owned manuscripts; Wiliam Llŷn and Wiliam Cynwal wrote elegies on this grandfather's death. The transcriber's father and two of his uncles had also owned manuscripts. John Jones was educated somewhere in Shrewsbury, possibly for a law career. In 1609 he would appear to have been engaged in the
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) Hamburg, where Clough died in 1570. She and Clough had two daughters, (a) Anne (born 1568), who married Roger Salusbury, and (b) Mary (born 1569), who married William Wynn of Melai. Clough provided handsomely for his widow and daughters and for his two stepsons. Katheryn returned to Berain and engaged William Cynwal of Penmachno, the bard and genealogist, to compile a record of her family - see his own
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, Brwynog, Siôn Phylip, Richard Phylip, Richard Cynwal, Wiliam Cynwal, Rhys Cain, Wiliam Llŷn, Siôn Tudur, Simwnt Fychan, Tomos Prys, Huw Arwystli, Lewis Dwnn, Tudur Aled, Lewis Môn, Lewis Menai, Owain Gwynedd, besides other lesserknown bards. Even the learned Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd wrote poems to members of this family. (For the 'bardic controversy' between Richard Phylip and Richard Cynwal
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker gentility'. In a letter of 1566 Salesbury wrote of him as 'the most famous antiquarius of all our country'. In the years after his death his reputation continued to be enhanced, William Camden described him as a 'learned Briton' and elegies were composed by two bardic pupils of Gruffudd Hiraethog, Lewis ab Edward and Wiliam Cynwal. Wood's biography describes him as 'a person of great eloquence, an
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy ., the two which Edmund Prys had with Wiliam Cynwal and Huw Machno respectively, and the one between Griffith Hafren, Rhisiart Phylip, and Ieuan Tew. Siôn Phylip wrote also a very large number of englynion. He wrote nothing at all in the freer metre of the carol which was to become more fashionable in the 17th century in the hands of William Phylip, Gruffydd Phylip, and others. The bard met his death
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet flyting poetry with some of his contemporaries, his best known disputation being with William Cynwal. In reality, this was a clash between the representative of the new English university culture (Prys) and the old Welsh bardic learning (Cynwal). Cynwal would not for a moment admit that Prys was any kind of a poet. Edmund Prys wrote a few cywyddau on religious themes - probably propaganda for the new
ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c. 1527 - 1598), priest, grammarian and poet Rhys of Llanddeiniolen, a clergyman. Catrin was an elder relative of Wiliam Cynwal; she was also a staunch recusant, and poems on religious themes are attributed to her. It is certainly the case that during his lifetime, Gruffydd Robert was believed in Milan to be descended from the nobility. He was one of seven children, whose names are not given; it is noted that Morys Clynnog was his uncle. Robert
SALUSBURY, THOMAS (1561 - 1586), conspirator Born 1561, elder son and heir of John Salusbury the younger and Katheryn of Berain. His year of birth is found in an englyn by William Cynwal, NLW MS 1553A. His brother (Sir) John was born in 1566 (englyn by William Cynwal in NLW MS 6495D, facing p. 1); in the same MS., englynion by various poets name five of his children. He was admitted to Trinity College, Oxford, 29 January 1579/80 at the age
TUDUR PENLLYN (c. 1420 - c. 1485-90), bard For his pedigree, see Peniarth MS 125: Cywyddau ymryson Edmwnd Prys a Wiliam Cynwal, Peniarth MS 139i Peniarth MS 139ii Peniarth MS 139iii, Peniarth MS 176: Achau, Wrexham MS. 1, and Stowe MS. 669. He was Tudur Penllyn ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth Foel, but in one manuscript he is called Tudur Penllyn ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth Foel. He traced his descent from Meirion Goch, an Edeirnion nobleman who
WILIAM LLYN (1534 or 1535 - 1580) Llŷn, poet According to contemporary references. Like Simwnt Fychan, Wiliam Cynwal, and Siôn Tudur, he was Gruffudd Hiraethog's pupil, and his name appears as one of the four poets who graduated as chief bards at the Caerwys eisteddfod, 1568. It may be inferred that most of his patrons lived in Merioneth, Montgomeryshire, Denbighshire, and Caernarvonshire, but he addressed eulogies to families as widely

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