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GRUFFYDD ap RHYDDERCH ap IESTYN (bu farw 1055), king When Gruffudd ap Llywelyn took possession of Deheubarth in 1044, the South found a new focus of resistance in the leadership of Gruffydd ap Rhydderch. Independence was thus retrieved in 1045, and for ten years, until his fall in 1055, Gruffydd gave to his adopted 'patria' a vigorous government in which resistance to the Danes was a prominent feature. The sanction for his intervention in the
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (bu farw 1201), prince of Deheubarth eldest son of Rhys ap Gruffydd and Gwenllian, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd. Founder of the senior line of the 'lord' Rhys's descendants, he was the destined heir to the principal lands of his father in Ystrad Tywi, and was so recognized by the English authorities. The leading events of his short career as lord of Dinefwr were in the main determined by the combined ambitions of his opponents
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (c. 1090 - 1137), prince of Deheubarth Son of Rhys ap Tewdwr and Gwladus, daughter of Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn. When the old South Wales monarchy disintegrated on the fall of Rhys ap Tewdwr in 1093, Gruffydd, the infant heir, was taken to Ireland where he was given asylum during childhood and early manhood. When he returned in 1113, the patriotic support of his younger countrymen was made useless by the cautious conduct of elements as yet
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS ap GRUFFYDD ab EDNYFED - gweler GRUFFYDD LLWYD, Sir
GRUFFYDD LLWYD Sir (bu farw 1335), traditional hero of a supposed Welsh revolt in 1322 Great-grandson of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth's seneschal Ednyfed Fychan. He is described in Welsh pedigrees as lord of Tregarnedd in Anglesey and of Dinorwig in Caernarfonshire; he also held lands at Twynan and elsewhere in north Denbighshire, at Llansadwrn in Carmarthenshire and Llanrhystud in Cardiganshire; Tregarnedd and the Denbigh lands he inherited from his father Rhys ap Gruffydd, who died early
GRUFFYDD, SION (bu farw 1586?), poet and chaplain to William ap Sir Rhys Thomas, a commander who served under the earl of Leicester in the Low Countries and who was killed at Zutphen in 1586. It is surmised that the poet died at the same time. At least two of his poems have been preserved, one a religious carol and the other a better known carol of longing for Caernarvon, composed when the poet was in Flanders.
GRUFFYDD, ELIS (fl. c. 1490-1552), 'the soldier of Calais,' copyist, translator, and chronicler He was born some time between 1490 and 1500 in Gronnant Uchaf, Gwespyr, in the parish of Llanasa, Flintshire, where he inherited twenty-four acres of land from his uncle Siôn ap Dafydd. Nothing is known of his early life in Wales, but in his 'Chronicle' (v. infra) he has much to say about himself in the service of the Wingfield family, in London and France. He was with Sir Robert Wingfield on
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar scholar Geraint Gruffydd was able to master new areas thoroughly and to undertake personal research, presenting detailed and secure textual analyses and innovative insights. In Bangor he turned to the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym and the poets of the gentry (y cywyddwyr), in Aberystwyth he was called upon to work on the earliest Welsh poetry (hengerdd) and the transition to the poems of the earliest
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor mewn Adfyd by Huw Lewys (1595), and a bilingual booklet on Dafydd ap Gwilym appeared in 1935. He published four anthologies of poetry. The first was Cywyddau Goronwy Owen (1907). Y Flodeugerdd Newydd (1909) was a selection of cywyddau of the poets of the gentry, meant as a textbook for students rather than a meticulous work of scholarship. Blodeuglwm o Englynion (1920) included, in addition to the
GRYFFYTH, JASPER (bu farw 1614), cleric, warden of Ruthin hospital, chaplain to archbishop Bancroft, collector of manuscripts fragments in Latin and Welsh (B.M. MS. Cotton, Jul. C., iii). Some of the most important Welsh manuscripts passed through his hands, e.g. 'The Black Book of Carmarthen,' 'The White Book of Rhydderch,' Peniarth MS 44 and Peniarth MS 53, the 'Dingestow Brut' (NLW MS 5266B), the 'Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan' (Peniarth MS 17), and two manuscripts of the Laws of Howel (Harleian 4353 and Cotton Cleopatra B.V
GUTO'R GLYN (fl. second half of the 15th century), bard was, at heart, more Welshman than Yorkist, although according to the bard Gutyn Owain he wore the collar and badge of king Edward. He died at Valle Crucis, c. 1493, and the abbot, Dafydd ap Ieuan who had looked after him so tenderly during the vicissitudes of old age and blindness, saw also to his obsequies and funeral feast.
GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist older than 1470. True, some of his own panegyrics can be dated 1462-5, and no doubt his love-poems belong to his early life, but the greater part of his work falls between 1470 and 1500. Eleven of his elegies can be definitely dated between 1476 and 1498, and all his poems to Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth, abbot of Llanegwestl (Valle Crucis), must needs belong to the years before Dafydd's election in

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