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EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd Gruffydd of Penrhyn. Editorial note 2020: Ednyfed Fychan had two wives: 1) Tangwystl daughter of Llywarch ap Brân, (the mother of six children, including Tudur and Hywel); 2) Gwenllian daughter of the Lord Rhys of Deheubarth (died 1236), the mother of Goronwy, Gruffydd, Gwladus and Gwenllian. P. C. Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1400 (1974), 'Marchudd 4'
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster death, and the schoolmastership till 23 October 1801, when George Albert Barker succeeded him. He held other incumbencies - the joint curacy of Llandeilo'r Fan and Llanfihangel Nant Bran (1759-1816), the perpetual curacy of Dyffryn Honddu (1765-96), the prebend of Llandegley in the collegiate church of Christ, Brecon (1776-95), and the rectory of Llanbadarn-fawr, Radnorshire (1804-5). These country
GUTO NYTH BRÂN - gweler MORGAN, GRIFFITH
teulu HOLLAND Berw, Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Berw estate in Anglesey was in the hands of ITHEL AP HOWELL AP LLEWELYN, a descendant of Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai at the end of the 12th century. Ithel had a daughter named ELINOR and a son called OWEN. The Holland family first became connected with Berw when JOHN HOLLAND, described as one of the household servants of Henry VI, married Ithel's
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844 - 1889), poet and priest and unconvincing. His 'Cywydd' celebrating the silver jubilee of the Bishop of Shrewsbury, written in 1876 under the bardic name 'Brân Maenefa' (The Crow of Maenefa, a mountain overlooking St Beuno's College), in which he laments that land and water bear witness to the old faith of Gwynedd more strongly than the people of the region, employs the Welsh strict-metre verse form with its alternate
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY (1797 - 1882), Member of Parliament Born 26 July 1797, eldest son of Sir William Bulkeley Hughes of Plas Coch, Llanidan, Anglesey, and Brynddu, Llanfechell, and Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Rice Thomas of Coed Alun, Caernarvon. His family, which claimed descent from Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai, had since the middle of the 15th century played a leading part in the local administration of Anglesey. Hugh Hughes (died 1609
HYWEL ab EINION LLYGLIW (fl. 1330-1370), poet and uncle to Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion Llygliw. Nothing is known about him, but his love poem addressed to Myfanwy Fychan of Castell Dinas Bran, Llangollen, is preserved in NLW MS 1553A (275), NLW MS 4973B (369b), NLW MS 6209E (216), and published in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales; for an English translation see T. Pennant, Tours in Wales. The poet is named Hywel ab Einion of Maelor
JONES, THOMAS (bu farw 1676), cleric He was appointed vicar of Llangamarch, Brecknock, 24 January 1661, and his successor was appointed (after his death) on 17 August 1676. There is extant a written by him to praise God for the health of Rowland Gwynne of Glan-brân, and two englynion to his brother, Dafydd Jones of Maes Mynys (near Builth).
LLYWARCH ap BRAN (fl. c. 1137), founder of one of the 'Fifteen (Noble) Tribes of Gwynedd'
MORGAN, GRIFFITH (Guto Nyth-brân; 1700 - 1737), cross-country runner of Llanwynno, Glamorganshire. The few definite facts known of him, together with a mass of fable, will be found in the entertaining book Plwy Llanwynno, by William Glanffrwd Thomas. He is there said to have been born in 1700 at Llwyncelyn, on the southern edge of Llanwynno, above Hafod (near Pontypridd), but his family soon moved to the adjoining Nyth-brân. He died in 1737 - dropping dead after

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