Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWARCH ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1173-1220) Gwynedd, court-poet from the death of Owain Gwynedd to the rise of Llywelyn the Great to the height of his power. He addresses Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd as ' lord of Aberffraw'; this must have been between 1173 and 1175. Fratricidal strife between the princes was the curse of Wales at that time, and the reference to Cain and Abel in the ode to Rhodri is very much to the point. The solution advocated by Llywarch was
LLYWARCH HEN (fl. 6th century), British prince and a hero of a cycle of Welsh tales dating from the mid-9th century , and other Welsh provinces, were descended from him through Merfyn Frych and Rhodri Mawr. Towards the middle of the 9th century, during a period of adversity for Powys, a story-teller of that province composed a cycle of tales about Llywarch and his sons. These contained englynion, which alone are extant as a result of having been copied into the Red Book of Hergest, col. 1026-49 (although a few also
LLYWELYN ap SEISYLL (d. 1023), king of Deheubarth and Gwynedd Nothing is known of his father, but his mother, Prawst, was, according to late pedigrees, the daughter of Elisedd, a younger son of Anarawd ap Rhodri Mawr. Since he himself married Angharad, daughter of Maredudd ab Owain ap Hywel Dda, he had distant claims to succession in both Deheubarth and Gwynedd, which in the circumstances of the time could be translated into reality by a leader of force and
MERFYN FRYCH (d. 844), king of Gwynedd son of Gwriad, probably a Manx chieftain and a reputed descendant of Llywarch Hen, by Ethyllt, a princess of Gwynedd. On the death, in 825, of Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog, his mother's uncle, he became king in Anglesey, and later, on the death of Hywel ap Caradog, appears to have acquired the kingship of the adjacent mainland cantrefs. Thus were united the inheritances of the last direct descendants
MEURIG ab IDWAL FOEL (d. 986), nobleman of Gwynedd Youngest son of Idwal Foel. Since he died in the same year as his nephew, Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd, he was never apparently king himself. But the lineage of Rhodri Fawr was preserved in Gwynedd through his descendants - see Idwal ap Meurig.
MORGAN, HYWEL RHODRI (1939 - 2017), politician Rhodri Morgan was born on 29 September 1939 in Cardiff, the second son of Thomas John ('T.J.') Morgan, a university lecturer, and his wife Huana (née Rees, 1906-2005), a teacher. His older brother Prys was born in 1937. The family had a strong academic and political heritage. Huana's father, John Rees, was a parish councillor in Swansea, while her grandfather, Thomas, had been a leading figure in
MORGAN, THOMAS JOHN (1907 - 1986), Welsh scholar and writer round one) and experience the old excitement of Saturday afternoons, remembering forever the fellowship that he used to know, the gentle pleasures of words and syntax and the desire to plait the locks of the muse. In 1935 he married Huana Rees (who had graduated in Welsh at Swansea) and they had two sons, Prys, a well known historian, and Rhodri, a prominent politician. T. J. Morgan died suddenly at
OWAIN ap THOMAS ap RHODRI (d. 1378), soldier of fortune and pretender to the principality of Wales Son of Thomas ap Rhodri ap Gruffydd by one Cecilia - he was therefore a great-great-grandson of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and a great-nephew of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Born c. 1330, probably on Thomas's estate of Tatsfield in Surrey, he appears to have entered the service of Philip VI of France while still quite young, and except for a brief interval of less than twelve months, spent the remainder of
OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales' Gruffudd ap Cynan; and after the death of Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri in 1378, few remained with a better claim than his to the heritage of the Llywelyns. He married (perhaps in 1383) Margaret, daughter of David Hanmer of Maelor; there were six sons and several daughters. Of the sons, only Maredudd appears to have survived his father. There is no indication in his early life presaging the events of his
OWAIN GWYNEDD (OWAIN GWYNEDD; c. 1100 - 1170), king of Gwynedd Church. By the former he had two sons, Iorwerth Drwyndwn and Maelgwn; and also two sons by Christina - Dafydd and Rhodri He had at least six other sons, of whom two, Hywel and Cynan, survived him, and two daughters, Angharad, wife of Gruffydd Maelor I, and Gwenllian, wife of Owain Cyfeiliog. As a young man during the decade 1120-30 he was associated with an elder brother, Cadwallon, in restoring the
PERYF ap CEDIFOR WYDDEL (fl. 1170), poet He was one of eight brothers at least, seven of whom were foster-brothers of Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd. When Hywel was slain at Pentraeth, Anglesey (1170), in battle against his half-brothers, Dafydd and Rhodri, the sons of Christina, the seven stood by him. Some of them were also slain, and three only of them escaped injury. Ithel, the other brother, had already been killed at Rhuddlan, at an
RHODRI ab OWAIN (d. 1195), prince of Gwynedd

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