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GWALCHMAI ap MEILYR (fl. 1130-1180), court poet one of the earlier Gogynfeirdd. He sang to Owain Gwynedd (died 1170) to his brothers, to Dafydd and Rhodri his sons, and also to Madog ap Maredudd of Powys (died 1160). Other extant poems of his are his ' Gorhoffedd ' (vaunting poem), his ' Dream,' and his verses to Eve, his wife. The Hendreg. MS. and the 'Red Book of Hergest' also attribute to him an ode to God which according to The Myvyrian
GWERFUL MECHAIN (1462? - 1500), poetess All that is known of her is that she was the daughter of Hywel Fychan of Mechain in Powys, confirmation of which is to be found in a cywydd written by Dafydd Llwyd, who sent Llywelyn ap Gutun to her with an expression of his love. It is known that bits of her poems were still preserved in the memory of country folk as late as the 19th century, for both Ap Vychan and Sir Owen M. Edwards refer to
GWILYM ap IEUAN HEN (fl. c. 1440-1480), poet No details remain of his life, although many of his poems are found in manuscripts. These include a poem in praise of the Virgin Mary (NLW MS 6681B (381)) and another to the 'Four Daughters of the Trinity' (NLW MS 1578B (71)), love poems (Gwysaney MS. 25 (201); NLW MS 5269B (211)); Wynnstay MS. 6 (170)), others addressed to Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Dynevor (NLW MS 6511B (194b)), Dafydd ap Ieuan ab
GWILYM RYFEL (fl. 12th century), poet All that remains of his work are two chains of englynion of intercession to Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd. These belong to the period 1174-75 when David ruled over the greater part of Gwynedd, including Anglesey. Gwilym Ryfel was one of the friends lamented by Gruffudd ap Gwrgenau in a chain of beautifully written englynion, and from this work (Hendregadredd MS. 76a, The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
GWILYM TEW (fl. c. 1460-1480), one of the bards of Glamorgan Gwilym Tew lived in Llangynwyd, the original centre of the tribe; Dafydd Benwyn calls him 'Gwilym tew brydydd o dir jarll.' His cywyddau show that he flourished c. 1460-1480. He sings to the gentry of upper Glamorgan and to the descendants of the Normans and of the English in the 'Vale' of Glamorgan, and 'itinerated', as a bard, to Kidwelly, Ewyas, and, perhaps to Maelienydd. He is not important as a
teulu GWYNNE Llanelwedd, It would seem that the 'Gwyn' family of Llanelwedd began with a younger son of Rhydderch ap Dafydd Goch Gwyn, of the widespread clan of Glanbran, Llandovery (and other seats); there is a very full account of this clan in Old Wales (ed. W. R. Williams), vols. ii and iii (index); and pedigrees, not always consistent, are printed in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) young boy. Gwilym Cowlyd (William John Roberts had only recently set up Gorsedd Geirionydd and a series of eisteddfodau on the banks of Llyn Geirionydd and it is against this background that the boy took seriously to learning the cynganeddion, mastering the handbook Yr Ysgol Farddol by Dafydd Morganwg (David Watkin Jones, and to competing in eisteddfodau. After giving up work at Nant, he worked for 15
HARRI, WILLIAM (Gwilym Garw-dyle; 1763 - 1844), poet Born 18 December 1763 at Garw-dyle in Penderyn, Brecknock, a grandson, it is said, of the poet Siôn Llewelyn of Vaynor. He was a weaver, as were his brothers Siôn Harri of Vaynor and Edward Harri of Cefn-Coed-y-Cymer. After farming unsuccessfully at Llwyn-onn, Penderyn, he spent the greater part of his life at Pontbrenllwyd; he had nine children. He died 11 July 1844 in the house of one of his
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HARRIES, EVAN (1786 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Ty'n-y-llan, Llan-wrtyd, Brecknock, 7 March 1786, son of Henry and Anne Harries and younger brother of William Harries of Trevecka. He married 1808, Maria, daughter of the Rev. Dafydd Parry of Llanwrtyd. In 1812, having been converted under the ministry of Ebenezer Richard, he joined the church at Pontrhyd-y-bere and began to preach in 1814. In 1818 he went to live at Brecon where he set
HERBERT, WILLIAM (earl of Pembroke), (bu farw 1469), soldier and statesman Son of Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan and Gwladus, daughter of Dafydd Gam. He served with the English forces in Normandy with his countryman Mathew Gough, was taken prisoner at Formigny (April 1450), and knighted at Christmas, 1450. In the struggle between Lancaster and York his interests, if not also his sympathies, inclined him to favour the Yorkists, for their strength on the borders of South
HOLBACHE, DAVID (fl. 1377-1423), lawyer, founder of Oswestry Grammar School Despite his (as yet unexplained) English surname, he was a Welshman; according to the pedigrees in Harl. MS. 4181 (Powys Fadog, iv, 93) and Peniarth MS 129 (by his fellow-countryman Gutun Owain), he was son of Ieuan Goch ap Dafydd Goch ap Iorwerth ap Cynwrig ap Heilyn (of Pentre-heilyn, in Ellesmere) ap Trahaearn ab Iddon; he had lands at Dudleston in Chirkland; he was steward of the town and

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