Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD family Bodidris, by Lewis Dwnn. EVAN LLOYD (died 1637), captain Military Sir John's grandson, was a captain in Ireland, with lands in Newry; the latter's son, Sir EVAN LLOYD, fought for Charles I and served him as sheriff of Denbighshire from 1644-6, for which he was fined £1,000 by parliament (16 June, 1646) but rewarded with a baronetcy by the king (21 June, 1647). The title lapsed on the death without heirs (6
LLOYD family Dolobran, fled from Demetia to Powys after slaying the mayor of Carmarthen. A Kelennyn ap Ririd was a juror in Mechain Uchcoed in 1292. The upper reaches of the pedigree are confused. Gwladys, daughter and heiress of Rhiryd ap Cynfrig Efell of Llwydiarth, is given as the wife of Rhiryd and of his son Celynin. According to Dwnn, Celynin's mother was Gwladys, daughter of Meredith ap Rhydderch, a descendant of
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, ancestor MEREDYDD AB IEUAN AP MEREDYDD with MARGARET, eldest daughter and coheiress of EINION AB ITHEL of Rhiwaedog, Esquire of the Body of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in A.D. 1395, and high sheriff of Meirionydd for life. He was [according to Lloyd ] the son of ITHEL AB GWRGENEU FYCHAN AB GWRGENEU AP MADOG AP RHIRYD FLAIDD.' The deputy-herald Lewis Dwnn, when he visited Rhiwaedog on 1 August 1592
LLYWARCH HEN (fl. 6th century), British prince and a hero of a cycle of Welsh tales dating from the mid-9th century appear in Dwnn (Visitations) and the descent from him of the leading families of Penllyn and the surrounding country, together with the legend of his burial in Llanfor, and the association of his name with the old remains there and elsewhere in Wales. The unravelling of the recorded facts concerning the historical Llywarch from these legendary accretions is the work of Sir Ifor Williams, on whose
MEYRICK, Sir SAMUEL RUSH (1783 - 1848), antiquary and 1613, under the authority of Clarencieux and Norroy, two Kings at Arms, by Lewys Dwnn, Deputy Herald at Arms … transcribed … and edited … by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick. … Published for the Welsh MSS. Society (Llandovery, 1846). This work, which is in two large quarto volumes, is dedicated to the ' Society for the Publication of Antient Welsh Manuscripts,' and remains an indispensable work of
MORGAN, JOHN (d. 1504), clerk of parliament, and bishop Some doubt exists concerning Morgan's ancestry. One pedigree (Peniarth MS 131, 251) traces his descent from Griffith Dwnn of Croesallgwn, Kidwelly, and this seems to be confirmed by the poet Ieuan Deulwyn's reference to his being 'of the blood of the Dwn' (Gwaith Ieuan Deulwyn, p. 50). But he is more usually thought to have been a brother to the lawyer, Trahaearn Morgan of Muddlescombe, Kidwelly
MORUS MAWDDWY (fl. c. 1540-1570), poet We have no details about him but some of his poems have survived in manuscripts and were addressed to Rhys Fychan of Corsygedol and to the Dwnn family.
MOSTYN, AMBROSE (1610 - 1663), a Puritan preacher Lewis Dwnn could have brought in his name in his Heraldic Visitations; Powys Fadog has many details of the Mostyn family, but not of this Mostyn; T. A. Glenn had a clear opportunity of introducing his name in his Mostyns of Mostyn, but missed it. As a pure matter of fact, Ambrose Mostyn was a Mostyn of Calcot, a younger branch of the Mostyn family of Talacre, a son of Dr. Henry Mostyn, chancellor
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist , and lies buried at Nevern. George Owen, was deeply influenced by the great awakening of interest in history and antiquities which marked the age of Elizabeth in Wales as well as England. Not only was he a student of the work of Humphrey Llwyd, David Powel, Sir John Price, and their contemporaries in England, but he was on familiar terms with William Camden, whom he helped, Lewys Dwnn, Thomas Jones
PHILIPPS family Picton, Sometime before 17 October 1491 Sir THOMAS PHILIPPS of Kilsant, Carmarthenshire, married Joan Dwnn, daughter and heiress of Harry Dwnn (son of Owen Dwnn of Muddlescomb in Kidwelly and Katherine Wogan, second daughter of John Wogan and widow of Sir Henry Wogan) and Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Wogan of Wiston. The Kilsant (Cilsant) family claimed descent from Cadifor Fawr of
PHILIPPS family Tregybi, Porth-Einion, Cardigan priory, It is frequently said that this family was a branch of the Philipps family of Picton, e.g. in Laws, Little England, 355; but it would be more exact to derive both of them from the Philipps family of Kilsant, Carmarthenshire - from Sir Thomas Philipps of Kilsant, who was also the progenitor of the Picton family. The pedigree varies in different books, e.g. Dwnn, i, 85; Meyrick, Cardiganshire, 2nd
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy bards.' SIÔN PHYLIP (1543? - 1620) He lived in the farmhouse of Mochres, a few miles from Harlech. His family was descended from an ancestor named Palgus, who left as sole heir a daughter Catherine, who married Ieuan le Colier; from this union, seven generations later, came the poet Siôn Phylip. (See Lewys Dwnn, Heraldic Visitation of Wales). Before graduating at Caerwys Siôn was a pupil of Wiliam

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