Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, According to the History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn, 1925, compiled by the 3rd baron Mostyn and T. Allen Glenn, the land upon which the present Mostyn Hall stands 'was acquired about five centuries ago by the marriage of IEUAN FYCHAN (died 1457), of Pengwern, Llangollen (and Tre Castell, Anglesey), with ANGHARAD daughter and heiress of HYWEL (or Howel), son of TUDUR AP ITHEL FYCHAN, and
IEUAN FYCHAN ap IEUAN ab ADDA (d. c. 1458), poet An ancestor of the family associated with Mostyn Hall, Flintshire. Ieuan Fychan lived at Pengwern, Denbighshire, before he married Angharad, heiress of Mostyn. Lord Mostyn and T. A. Glenn, in their History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (London, 1925), give some details about the career of Ieuan Fychan; e.g. he was an esquire in the retinue of Thomas Fitz Alan, earl of Arundel and lord of
MOSTYN family Talacre, The Mostyns of Talacre descend from Peter (Peyrs, Piers), son of Richard ap Hywel by his wife Catherine, daughter of Thomas Salusbury the elder, of Lleweni (for Peter and Richard ap Hywel see the article on the Mostyn family of Mostyn). The baronetcy in this family was created in 1670, the first baronet being Sir EDWARD MOSTYN. To this family belonged FRANCIS EDWARD MOSTYN (1860 - 1939), fourth
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
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family sat with three commissioners, viz. Richard ap Howel ap Ieuan Fychan of Mostyn (father-in-law of Gruffydd ap Ieuan), Sir William Gruffydd, (father-in-law of Thomas Mostyn, son of Richard ap Howel), and Sir Roger Salusbury of Llewenni. A second reason for his importance is the fact that his nephew, or 'great-nephew,' bishop Richard Davies (1501? - 1581), says that he remembers seeing in the possession
LEWYS ap HYWEL (fl. c. 1560-1600), poet No details concerning him are available, but from the fact that the subjects of his poetry of praise and elegy were mainly persons from Denbighshire and Flintshire, it is probable that the poet himself was a native of that part of Wales. A number of his poems remain in MSS., and these include cywyddau addressed to William Mostyn of Mostyn, Pierce Mostyn of Talacre, William Holland of Hendre fawr
EDWIN (d. 1073), prince of Tegeingl pedigrees as great-great-grandson of Hywel Dda; his mother was Ethelfleda, daughter of Edwin, king of Mercia. He married Iwerydd, sister of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, and by her had three sons, Owain, Uchdryd, and Hywel. Many North Wales families (particularly in Flintshire and Denbighshire) claimed descent from Edwin, among them those of Mostyn of Mostyn and Mostyn of Talacre. David Powel of Ruabon also claimed
VAUGHAN, JOHN (d. 1824), artist and violinist one of the earliest members of the Society. Leathart says that he was looked upon as 'a dandy of the first order, a distinction he was not a little proud of', and adds that he was related to lady Mostyn, mother of the Sir Thomas Mostyn, who died in 1831. This lady Mostyn was Margaret, daughter of Hugh Wynn, Ll.D.; she was heiress of Bodysgallen (near Conway), Plas-mawr (Conway), Bodidris
CADWALADR, Sir RHYS (fl. 1666-1690), cleric and poet Of Celynin, near Conway, according to Siôn Edwart, but of the 'College' in that town, according to his own testimony (Llanstephan MS 15 (37)). The first date we have for him is 1666; he wrote a poem to one of the Gwydir family in 1674 and many poems to various members of the Mostyn family, one being to Thomas Mostyn at the New Year, 1678. We have no further dated poem after 1689, when he wrote a
MORRIS, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts (NLW MS 4581B), heraldic, genealogical, and historical texts in Welsh and English (Mostyn 113, Peniarth MS 168), poetry (Llanstephan MS 9, NLW MS 1553A), the Mabinogion and romances (Mostyn 135), grammars (Peniarth MS 169), and anecdotes and miscellanea (Llanwrin 1). It is obvious from references by other copyists that all his work has not survived. A notable feature of his writing is that he adopted
GLENN, THOMAS ALLEN (1864 - 1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist ); Newmarket notes (Prestatyn Hundred, Flintshire), Parts 1 & 2 (Prestatyn 1911, 1912); Northern Flintshire, historical, genealogical and archaeological, Vol. I, Parts 1-3 (Horncastle, 1913); (with Lord Mostyn), History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (1925); The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh (London, 1934).
DAFYDD BAENTIWR (fl. c. 1500-1530?), a poet His only extant work is his bardic controversy (ymryson) with Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys Llwyd. It contains a poem addressed to Gruffydd by Dafydd, a poem in reply by Gruffydd, and another by Dafydd. This controversy is to be found in the following manuscripts - Cardiff 7, Mostyn 143, NLW MS 5269B, Peniarth MS 112 Peniarth MS 152; and parts of it in NLW MS 728D and Peniarth MS 78.

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