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ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian on 'Y Beirdd Cymreig o William Llŷn hyd at Gwilym Hiraethog'; Caernarvon (1894), Gwaith Iolo Goch (published by the National Eisteddfod Association, 1896). Ashton also published Traethawd or Ffeiriau Cymru (Llanelli, 1881), Bywyd ac Amserau'r Esgob Morgan (Treherbert, 1891), A Guide to Dinas Mawddwy (Aberystwyth, 1893), and a Welsh translation, entitled Y Ddirprwyaeth Dirol Gymreig. Crynhodeb o
BLEDRI (bu farw 1022), bishop of Llandaff Edwin of Gwent, in an attempt to pacify the parties, he was wounded; the king and his troops were forthwith synodically excommunicated and the land laid under an interdict. Peace was finally restored on terms which included the gift to Llandaff of a royal vill conjectured to be Undy. In the 'Gwentian' Brut, Iolo Morganwg gives Bledri praise as a scholar and the title of 'the Wise' and adds withal an
BRADFORD, JOHN (1706 - 1785), weaver, fuller, and dyer that he interested himself in the religious controversies which were a feature of the age. Iolo Morganwg was one of his pupils; after the death of Bradford, Iolo invented all kinds of stories about his learning and about his connection with the system of the bardic 'gorsedd' - that druidic and Unitarian system which, according to Iolo, had persisted throughout the centuries in Glamorgan, and
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare to see this hope realized and to be chosen as first chancellor of the University. He died a fortnight later, that is, 25 February 1895. Lord Aberdare was twice married. The second son of his second marriage, William Napier Bruce, is separately noticed. Lord Aberdare knew Welsh, and translated some of the poems of Taliesin ab Iolo and of Owen Gruffydd into English.
CASNODYN (fl. 1320-40), poet Aberconwy, which the Red Book gives as the work of Riserdyn. Iolo Morganwg states that Casnodyn was a native of Kilvey, and it would appear that Hywel Ystorym, who was the poet's contemporary, refers to the same fact in a satiric poem: ' Pryf waeth waeth ei faeth o fythau Cilfai ' - R.B. Poetry, 1342. Casnodyn sang to Gwenllian, wife of Sir Gruffydd Llwyd, who was a prisoner in 1322, and to Ieuan Llwyd ap
CHRISTINA , she actively supported her sons Dafydd and Rhodri, in their attack upon their half-brother Hywel in 1170; an unknown poet, playing upon her name, speaks bitterly of her unchristian behaviour. The Welsh form of her name is Cristin; the ' Crisiant ' of the Gwentian Brut (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, ii, 572) is a fancy of Iolo Morganwg.
CYFFIN, ROGER (fl. c. 1587-1609), a poet Varying details are given about him - e.g. Enwogion (Foulkes) names him as parson of Llanberis in 1571; Panton MS. 58 (87), gives him as a gentleman from Chirk; Llanover MS. B 2 (602) contains a note in the handwriting of Iolo Morganwg, stating that he was a native of Denbighshire, curate of Flemingston, Glamorganshire, and of somewhere in Carmarthenshire, and parson of Llanberis during the
CYNWAL, WILLIAM (bu farw 1587), poet best-known of his bardic controversies is the long one between Edmwnd Prys and himself. He also produced works of heraldry (e.g. Bangor MS. 5943), a chronicle (Peniarth MS 212), a grammar (Cardiff MS. 38), and part of a dictionary, extant in the hand of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) (NLW MS 13142A). A copy of his will, made shortly before his death, is kept at N.L.W. He was buried at Ysbyty Ifan
DAFYDD ap BLEDDYN (bu farw 1346), bishop Bishop of St Asaph, succeeded on the death of Llywelyn ap Llywelyn in 1314. According to Iolo Goch (ed. C. Ashton, 273), he was 'of the tribe of Uchtryd ' and, in accordance with this, the pedigrees make him a brother of Ithel Anwyl, and a nephew of Ithel Fychan, both important figures in Flintshire in the early part of the century (Powys Fadog, iii, 106, iv, 154). He may be the ' David ap
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet Basaleg, the man to whom Dafydd gave the name 'Ifor Hael' (Ifor the Generous). In seven highly inventive poems to Ifor Dafydd depicts a very special friendship between the two, and Ifor Hael came to represent the ideal patron for later poets. There is very little evidence on which to date Dafydd ap Gwilym's life. The few dateable references in his poems all belong to the 1340s. We have Iolo Goch's
DAFYDD ap PHYLIP ap RHYS Syr (fl. c. 1500-1540), poet (probably in holy orders) who was from the parish of Llangyfelach, near Swansea, according to Iolo Morganwg (NLW MSS 13062B (467)). Only one of his poems remains, a cywydd in praise of Sir Rhys ap Thomas.
DAFYDD, EDWARD (c. 1600 - 1678?) Margam, bard His birth may be assigned to c. 1600 -there is a cywydd which he wrote in 1623. Iolo Morganwg said that his bardic teacher was Llywelyn Siôn, of the neighbouring parish of Laleston. He was the most prominent of the Glamorgan bards of the 17th century; in all probability he can be regarded as the last of them who was a professional bard. He sang awdlau and cywyddau to the landed gentry of

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