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teulu FITZ WARIN, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston plans, c. 1227, for the marriage of Angharad, daughter of Madog ap Gruffydd, to the son of Fulk, but the wedding did not take place - it is unknown if Llywelyn's opposition caused the scheme to fail. [At the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264, FULK IV was drowned while escaping from the field; afterwards] Simon de Montfort sought the aid of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and one of the means of doing this was to
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS (1146? - 1223), archdeacon of Brecon and mediaeval Latin writer Born some time between 1145 and 1147 at Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, the youngest son of William de Barri and Angharad, daughter of Gerald de Windsor and Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. He received his early education from his uncle David FitzGerald bishop of S. Davids, and at the abbey of S. Peter, Gloucester. Subsequently he was a student at the University of Paris, and after his return thence
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd , Meirionnydd, Rhos, Rhufoniog and Dyffryn Clwyd were under the rule of Gwynedd. He died, blind and decrepit, in 1137, and was buried in the cathedral church of Bangor. An elegy upon him was sung by Meilyr, his pencerdd. His wife, Angharad, daughter of Owain ab Edwin, survived him by twenty-five years. It was part of the traditional lore of the Welsh bards that Gruffudd ap Cynan had made certain regulations
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (bu farw 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh He was the son of Llywelyn ap Seisyll and Angharad merch Maredudd. Gruffudd was one of the most successful British princes of the Middle Ages and the Book of Llandaff claims that he was 'king of all Wales from end to end'. True to the medieval idea of a Wheel of Fate, however, Gruffudd's career ended in exile and violent death. Gruffudd's father Llywelyn came originally from Powys. He fought his
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN (bu farw 1063), king of Gwynedd and Powys, and after 1055 king of all Wales Son of Llywelyn ap Seisyll and Angharad, daughter of Maredudd ab Owain (died 999), king of Deheubarth. Not much information about his youth is available but some traditions have been preserved in the tales of Walter Map. As a youth he is said to have been slow and spiritless, but ambition later turned him into a man of valour and boldness and developed in him imagination and steadfastness of
GRUFFUDD, RHISIART (fl. c. 1569), poet No details of his life are to be found, but some of his poems remain in manuscripts. These include two englynion (B.M. Add. MS. 14898 (42b); NLW MS 3037B (324); a poem begging the reconciliation of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Anglesey with his second wife, Agnes, in NLW MS 3048D (490). She was accused of having tried to poison her husband; see Angharad Llwyd, History of Anglesey, 143; and another
GRUFFYDD ap MADOG (bu farw 1191) Brogyntyn. His share consisted of Maelor and Ial (Bromfield and Yale) to which he later added Nanheudwy, and on the death, in 1187, of Owain Fychan, the lands of Cynllaith and lower Mochnant. Excluding Penllyn and Edeirnion, he had thus reunited northern Powys, though it was his elder son, Madog, who lent his name to this region since known as ' Powys Fadog.' He married his cousin, Angharad, daughter of
GWENLLIAN (bu farw 1136) Daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan, by Angharad, daughter of Owen ap Edwin. She married Gruffydd ap Rhys shortly after 1116, the most famous of her sons being the 'lord' Rhys ap Gruffydd. At the opening of the great Welsh uprising in 1136, she led an attack on the Norman fortress of Kidwelly, in her husband's absence, and was killed fighting outside the town, at a spot still known as Maes Gwenllian.
GWGON ap MEURIG (bu farw 871), king of Ceredigion, and the last of the line of Ceredig According to the Chronicle of the Princes he was drowned in the year 871. His sister, Angharad, married Rhodri Mawr. On the death of Gwgon this gave Rhodri a sufficient pretext for intervening in the affairs of the state of Seisyllwg, formed rather more than a century earlier by the union of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi.
teulu HANMER Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, .1388) became a justice of the king's bench in 1383 and was knighted in 1387. He married Agnes (or Angharad), daughter of Llywelyn Ddu ap Gruffydd ap Iorwerth, and the Welsh tone of the family appears in the support they gave to Owain Glyn Dwr, who married Sir David's daughter Margaret. Her brothers GRIFFITH (who married into the Tudor family of Penmynydd) and PHILIP joined in proclaiming him prince
HUGHES, OWEN (bu farw 1708), attorney Bulkeley daughters with young John Griffith of Cefn Amwlch. In the same year he was high sheriff of Anglesey and the hero of a cywydd panegyric by Edward Morris; the bard's praise is indeed extravagant, but nearer to the truth than the irresponsible stories told by Angharad Llwyd. The peace with the Bulkeleys was not long kept; Hughes became mayor of Newborough, gathered a clique of the burgesses around
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination taught at Cae Top School from 1919 to 1921, where he sat a scholarship for Friars School. This was a school for boys which had a great reputation for its classics-teaching. The headmaster W. St Bodvan Griffith combined expertise in classics as well as in science. R. Gwilym Hughes came under the influence of R. E. Hughes, the Welsh teacher, grandfather of the Welsh author and campaigner, Angharad Tomos

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