Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century Owen Tudor. It is, therefore, impossible to accept the reports that he was mortally wounded either at the battle of Wakefield, 1460, or at Mortimer's Cross, 1461. His praises were sung by Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Rhys Llwyd ap Rhys ap Rhicert, Gwilym ap Ieuan Hen, and Lewis Glyn Cothi. It is probable that the englynion attributed to him and Owen Dwnn and Griffith Benrhaw
GRUFFUDD BENRHAW, or PENRHAW (fl. 15th century), poet of whom it is known that he was a native of Brecknock and related to the family of Awbrey. A series of englynion, attributed to him, to Owain Dwnn, and to Gruffudd ap Nicolas, is extant [but see the article on Gruffudd ap Nicolas ]. Prose passages accompany these, and the whole relates to various incidents in the life of the poet, obviously an unruly person. It gives an account of his
HARRY, GEORGE OWEN (c. 1553 - c. 1614), antiquary According to the pedigree which he himself supplied to Lewis Dwnn, he was the son of Owain ap Harri of Llanelly and Maud, daughter of Phillip ap John ap Thomas of ' Hendre Mor,' Gower. He was instituted into the rectory of Whitchurch in Cemais, Pembrokeshire, on 18 March 1584, on the presentation of George Owen of Henllys. He was also rector of Llanfihangel Penbedw in the same neighbourhood
HUW LLŶN (fl. c. 1552-1594), poet there is no proof that they were the same person. Some of Huw Llŷn's poetry remains, and this includes poems to Walter Devereux (earl of Essex), Henry Rowland (bishop of Bangor), Simon Thelwall of Plas y Ward, and to the South Walians Thomas Vaughan (Pembrey), Gruffudd Dwnn (Ystrad Merthyr), William and George Owen (Henllys), and John Lloyd (Cilgwyn). A bardic controversy occurred between him and Siôn
HUW TALAI (fl. c. 1550-1580), poet nothing is known of his life, but at least two examples of his work exist in manuscript. They are cywyddau of praise to Rhys ap Morys of Bryn y Beirdd, Llandeilo-fawr, and Gruffydd Dwnn of Kidwelly.
HYWEL ap 'Syr' MATHEW (d. 1581), poet, genealogist, and soldier History of Britain (Peniarth MS 168 (178)) that he was present at the siege of Boulogne in 1544. It appears too that he was a zealous Roman Catholic. Peniarth MS 138 and parts of Cardiff MS. 50 (274-5, 293-356) are in his hand. His genealogical manuscripts were used as a basis for Lewys Dwnn's in Peniarth MS 268. It is said that Rhys Cain and Lewys Dwnn praised his manuscripts, and that the latter was
HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD ap IORWERTH (fl. c. 1300-1340) bend horseshoes with his hands (Cambrian Register, i, 145-55; Yorke, Royal Tribes (edn. 1887), 65 and 172-3). No record evidence exists to support the legend but medieval poets used his name to typify physical prowess (Iolo Goch ac Eraill (edn. 1937), 107 and 356; Richard Llwyd, Beaumaris Bay, 53n). The descent from Hwfa is confirmed by Lewys Dwnn (Visitations, ii, 206 and 259), but elsewhere Dwnn
HYWEL BANGOR (fl. 1540), an itinerant bard written by Huw Bangor or Hugh ap William Bangor in 1537, but he may have been a member of the Bangor family, the pedigree of which is given by Lewis Dwnn (ii, 252).
IEUAN ap RHYDDERCH ap IEUAN LLWYD (fl. 1430-1470), gentleman and poet Son of Rhydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd of Rhydderch Park, in the parish of Lanbadarn Odyn, a wealthy landowner who held office under the Crown in 1387. According to Dwnn, i, 28, the mother of ' Ieuan ap Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd y prydydd ' was Annes, daughter of Gwilym ap Philip ab Elidir. But Dwnn, i, 45, 85, states that Rhydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd married twice, (1) ' Marged ferch Gruffydd Gryg ap Ieuan
IFOR HAEL, patron of bards Bassaleg), (181) 'Gwern y klepa ymassalec' (Gwern y klepa in Bassaleg) and the ancestry of the Philip who was there in 1550 is traced back to 'Tomas ap Ivor hael ap Llywelyn ap Ivor.' The three brothers, Morgan, Philip, and Ifor Hael are named in Peniarth MS 176, Peniarth MS 206, (R. i, 977); see also NLW MS 3033B (39-40) and Peniarth MS 140 (74-6). For the complete pedigree see Dwnn, i, 218. Their
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon A friend and patron of Iolo Goch, who addressed two cywyddau of petition to him (printed in I.G.E., 1st ed. 55-61, 2nd ed. 49-55), and commemorated him in an elegy, printed in Ashton's edition of Iolo, 344-53. Ithel's family seat was Coed-y-mynydd in Ysgeifiog parish, Flintshire; he was well-born - Ashton (op. cit. 267, 325-6) prints, from Dwnn and Powys Fadog, relevant details of his pedigree
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard described in 1559 as 'Thomas Johns alias Catty.' The name of his first wife is unknown; his second, whom he married in 1607, was Joan, widow of Thomas Williams of Ystrad-ffin and daughter of Sir John Price of Brecon Priory (1502?-1555). His manuscripts begin about 1570. He assisted George Owen and Lewys Dwnn and the officers of the Heralds College. He was steward of Caron in 1601. He died in 1609, the

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