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ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD (bu farw 1143), prince Cadwaladr, notwithstanding a marriage alliance between the two families. Owain showed his sense of the tragedy by driving his brother from northern Ceredigion and forcing him to take refuge in Ireland. Anarawd left a son EINION, who was slain in 1163 by his own man, Walter ap Llywarch, at the instigation, it was believed, of earl Roger of Hereford. It may be inferred from the account that Einion was the
DAFYDD BENFRAS (fl. 1230-1260), poet His father's name was Llywarch, and his home was in Anglesey. He wrote eulogies to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, and an elegy upon his death in 1240. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1244) and Dafydd ap Llywelyn (1246) were also the subjects of elegies by Dafydd Benfras. Soon after Llywelyn ap Gruffydd had started on his campaign against his brother Owain in 1255 and against the English of the Middle Country in
DANIEL ap LLOSGWRN MEW, poet An elegiac awdl on Owain Gwynedd is attributed to him in Hendreg. MS. 21ab and The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 193a. The 'Red Book of Hergest,' col. 1401, attributes to him an elegy in the form of a chain of englynion on Gruffudd ap Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1200), which appears in Hendreg. MS. 113b and in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 204b, as the work of Llywarch ab Llywelyn
DAVIES, JOHN (Taliesin Hiraethog; 1841 - 1894), farmer and poet verse and was also rewarded for a novel, ' Y Sesiwn yng Nghymru ' (on the Great Sessions of Wales). His free verse is rather better than his work in the strict metres. His best poems are, perhaps, ' Pryddest Llywarch Hen ' and ' Rhieingerdd Elwy ac Alwen.' He wrote a great deal for the Voelas family (see Wynne of Voelas) and was, at one time, regarded as their household bard.
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'
GRUFFYDD ap LLYWELYN (bu farw 1244), prince Natural son of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth by Tangwystl, daughter of Llywarch Goch of Rhos. He was born sometime before his father's marriage to Joan in 1206. The first reference to him is as one of the hostages handed over to John in 1211; he was still a prisoner in August 1213, but was released as part of the general settlement of 1215. Irresponsible and headstrong, Gruffydd openly resented the fact
GWILYM RYFEL (fl. 12th century), poet , 257a) it appears that he came from Powys, and that he was killed far from his home, where his blood could not be avenged by his kin. Like Gwalchmai he appears to have been both poet and soldier. It is certain that much of his poetry is lost, for Iorwerth Beli, writing a century or more after his time, names him (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 317b) one among four, with Llywarch (Brydydd y Moch
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
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 DDA (bu farw 950), king and legislator of his father's principality, namely Seisyllwg (Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi). He bequeathed this to his two sons Hywel and Clydog, and on the latter's death in the year 920 Hywel took possession of the whole. He married Elen, daughter of Llywarch ap Hyfaidd of Dyfed, who brought him Dyfed (modern Pembrokeshire) as her dower - for Llywarch was, in all probability, the last prince of Dyfed. The prince
IORWERTH DRWYNDWN (bu farw c. 1174), prince of Gwynedd Elder son of Owain Gwynedd by Gwladus, daughter of Llywarch ap Trahaearn. He married a princess of Powys, namely Marared, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd, by whom he had one son, the future Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In the partition of his father's territories he received Arfon and probably Nanconwy. Shortly afterwards he disappears from view, probably dying about the time of the usurpation of power in
JONES, Sir EVAN DAVIES (1859 - 1949), 1st baronet, of Pentower, Fishguard, civil engineer, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire collector of Pembrokeshire and non-Pembrokeshire material) and the purchase for the Library of the Compton House (Aberaeron) library and the Llywarch Reynolds (Merthyr Tydfil) collection and by his gift to the Library of his own very extensive collection of book plates of Welsh interest. A bust of him by Sir William Goscombe John (1924) and a portrait in oils (1939), are in the National Library. In 1927

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