Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD ap MAREDUDD ab EDNYFED (fl. c. 1460), poet Llywelyn ap Maredudd ab Ednyfed.
DAFYDD ap MAREDUDD ap TUDUR (fl. 1460) Tregynon, poets
DAFYDD AP MAREDUDD GLAIS, murderer, civic official, scribe and translator A member of one of Aberystwyth's leading 15th century families, Dafydd was the son of Maredudd Glais. He acted as attorney for his father in 1432-3 and was committed to Cardigan castle for arrears that had accumulated. Like his father, he appears to have been an archer and in 1438 was given a letter of protection to go abroad in Edmund Beaufort's retinue. In 1439 he stood pledge, with John
DAFYDD ap MAREDUDD GLAIS (fl. 1429-1468), cleric, murderer, civic official, and translator of a chronicle of the kings of England into Welsh He was the son of Maredudd Glais, a man who filled a number of municipal offices in Aberystwyth and Llanbadarn between 1411 and 1458. The date of Dafydd's birth is not known and the earliest mention of him in the records is as a pledge with John Robury and Griffith Prouth for Thomas Kirkham, abbot of Vale Royal, in respect of a fine in 1429. The three are described as clerics, and they
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, The family of Davies of Gwysaney is descended in direct line from Cynric Efell (fl. 1200), the elder of the twin sons of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys, who, on the death of his father, succeeded to the lordship of Eglwys Egle, a division of the lordship of Bromfield, a part of Ruabon, and of Ystrad Alun Uwch Gwysaney (later known as Moldsdale). Cynric married Golle, daughter and heiress of
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel reached its intended destination, its message certainly did, for Dwn and his son Maredudd became important leaders in Glyndŵr's southern campaign. In July 1403 Dwn was with Glyndŵr, Rhys Ddu (formerly sheriff of Cardiganshire), and others when they took Carmarthen, and on 28 September he captured in the port of Carmarthen a ship belonging to the Llansteffan merchant John Sely. The stewardship of Cydweli
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd later Penrhyn estate), and half of ' Gavell Kennyn ' in Crewyrion in Caernarfonshire, as well as the Cardiganshire possessions mentioned above. Their possessions in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire passed to Tudur's sons - GORONWY OF PENMYNYDD (died 1382), EDNYFED OF TRECASTELL (died c. 1382), RHYS OF ERDDREINIOG, GWILYM OF CLORACH, and MAREDUDD, whose precise share of the family inheritance is not known
ELSTAN (or ELYSTAN) GLODRYDD, founder of the fifth of the 'royal tribes' of Wales , Idnerth, also had three sons; of these, Madog (died 1140) had five sons. Two of Madog's sons, Hywel and Cadwgan, were killed in 1142, and a third, Maredudd, in 1146; the other two, CADWALLON (died 1179) and EINION CLUD (died 1177), ruled respectively over Maelienydd and Elfael. They were not on good terms, and in 1160 Cadwallon seized Einion and handed him over to Owain Gwynedd, who surrendered him to
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog Thomas ap Dafydd ab Ifan ab Einion ab Osbwrn. The wife of his son, EVAN AP ROBERT, was Gwen, daughter of Humphrey ap Maredudd ab Evan ap Robert, Cesail-gyfarch, Caernarfonshire, and it was their son, ROBERT AB EVAN, who first stabilized the surname and became known as ROBERT EVANS. Robert Evans married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wynn ap Cadwaladr, Rhiwlas, Meironnydd, their heir being EVAN EVANS
EVANS, WILLIAM (d. 1589/90), well-born cleric cathedral. Yet there was another, and an interesting, side to his character; he was a patron of poets. Dafydd Benwyn styles him the ' Ifor Hael ' of Llandaff, comparing him thus with the medieval Maecenas of that name; he tells us too that Evans kept a ' household poet,' Maredudd ap Rhoser. And the poet Sils ap Siôn has left a collection of poems in praise of the chancellor, by as many as eight bards; he
FITZ ALAN family, lords of Oswestry and Clun, and later earls of Arundel The Fitz Alan family was settled at Oswestry in the early years of the 12th century, but their position was challenged by Maredudd the son of Bleddyn. During the reign of Stephen (1135-54) WILLIAM FITZ ALAN I (c. 1105 - 1160) aided Matilda, and when he was forced to flee, Madog ap Maredudd took control of Oswestry which he lost sometime before his death (and that of William) in 1160. William
FITZ WARIN family, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston Fulk s died.] A WILLIAM FITZ WARIN, who may have been related to the lords of Whittington, was active in Welsh affairs in 1277 when he witnessed an agreement between Pain de Chaworth and Rhys ap Maredudd, and was present at the surrender of Gruffydd and Cynan, sons of Maredudd ab Owain, Llywelyn their nephew, and Rhys ap Rhys Fychan. In the 15th cent, another WILLIAM FITZ WARIN, levied men in Wales

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