Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CYNAN ap HYWEL (d. 1242?), prince Llywelyn of North Wales, he is the ally of William Marshall in the earl's great invasion of the South, and in that capacity harries Is Aeron, which is placed in his keeping. His permanent reward was the bestowal upon him of Emlyn and Ystlwyf (between the Cynin and the Cowin) in return for his support. On 18 November it was announced by the king that Cynan had done homage for his rightful patrimony and
CYNGAR (fl. 6th century), saint river Thaw. In Glamorgan he established two monasteries at places not exactly located, and came into contact with a king Poulentus and a prince named Pebiau. According to the 'Life' of Saint Cybi, which states that that saint and S. Cungar were kinsmen, S. Cungar accompanied S. Cybi first to Ireland and then to Anglesey. A Cyngar is the patron saint of Llangefni in Anglesey and of Hope in Flintshire
CYNIDR (fl. 6th century), saint Gwynllyw and Gwladys, and therefore a brother to Saint Cadoc. Cynidr is perhaps the Keneder mentioned in the composite 'Life' of S. Cadoc as one of the saints accompanying S. Cadoc in his altercation with king Arthur. Cynidr seems to have been most active in Brecknock, where the churches of Llangynidr, Aberyskir, Llan-y-wern, Cantref, and Glasbury were all originally named after him. His legend is known
CYNOG (fl. 500?), saint was, according to legend, the son 'of Brychan, founder of the kingdom of Brycheiniog, and Banadlwedd, daughter of a king of Powys. He is chiefly commemorated in Brycheiniog, where Defynnog, Ystrad Gynlais, Penderyn, Battle, Llangynog, and Merthyr Cynog, are all named after him, the last being reputed his place of burial. These churches, with their chapels, account for a large part of the modern
DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1203), king of Gwynedd of his greatest triumph; he ejected all his rivals, including Rhodri, imprisoned Maelgwn, who had ventured to return from exile, and became for a brief season ruler of the whole of Gwynedd. To this year, it would appear, belongs the laudatory poem of Gwilym Rhyfel, who calls him ' king of Cemais.' In the great upheaval of 1173, Dafydd took the king's side, and he was thus emboldened to ask for the
DAFYDD ap BLEDDYN (d. 1346), bishop the churches of Meifod, Welshpool, and Guilsfield. In 1336, with the consent of the chapter, he appropriated the church of Nantglyn to improving the income of the ten vicars of the cathedral; from the act (confirmed by the king in 1341) it appears that the south transept (now the consistory court) had just been built. Legal proceedings were taken against the bishop in 1340-1 in an attempt to limit
DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1283), prince of Gwynedd -east Wales, together with properties in Cheshire and elsewhere in England, brought to him as a result of his marriage - part of the general settlement with Edward - to Elizabeth Ferrers of the family of Derby and a distant kinswoman of the king. During the next five years David's grievances against the English authorities were on a par with those of Llywelyn himself; and indeed it was David who
DAFYDD ap GWILYM (fl. 1340-1370), poet region. By 1252 he was King's Bailiff in the district around Llanbadarn Fawr, and was appointed constable of Cardigan Castle in 1260. The name of his son Einion occurs as witness to a deed in 1275. A son of this Einion, Gwilym, the poet's grandfather, was a tenant of the king in Emlyn in 1302. Another prominent member of the family was Llywelyn ap Gwilym, Dafydd's uncle, who was constable of Newcastle
DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1246), prince The only son of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth by his wife Joan, natural daughter of king John. As such, he was regarded from his birth, about 1208, as the heir to the strong principality which his father was building up. As early as 1220, the king gave his sanction to the assumption and took the prince and his mother under the protection of the Crown. In 1222, the support of Honorius III was added; four
DAFYDD AP MAREDUDD GLAIS, murderer, civic official, scribe and translator result of which Sir William ap Thomas and Gruffydd ap Nicolas were accepted by both sides as arbiters. On 12 September 1441 the parties concluded a tripartite agreement whereby Dafydd and his kinsmen agreed to pay 304s for the use of the dead men's relatives; Dafydd was also required not to come into the town of Aberystwyth or the town or church of Llanbadarn Fawr for a time. On 2 July 1445, the king
DAFYDD LLWYD ap HUW (fl. beginning of the 17th century), poet His extant work consists of a cywydd to a maiden (NLW MS 2692B), two englynion, and a religious poem in free metre which praises king James I.
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard , three elegies (one on the death of king Henry VII), a cywydd describing ' Ysgraff Porthaethwy,' i.e. the ferry over the Menai Straits, and two 'flyting' poems; sixteen of the above are printed in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1935.

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