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JONES, LEWIS DAVIES (Llew Tegid; 1851 - 1928), eisteddfodwr it at the request of the college authorities in order to collect funds for the new buildings of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He gave himself to this work till 1916. In 1881 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Thomas, Plas Madog, Parc, near Bala, and a cousin of T. E. Ellis; they had two sons and three daughters. He died at Bangor, 4 August 1928, and was buried in Glanadda
JONES, NANSI RICHARDS (Telynores Maldwyn; 1888 - 1979), harpist . In 1928 she married Cecil Maurice Jones, a banker who subsequently became a farmer, and they settled in Madog Café, Tremadog. During their time there Côr Telyn Eryri (the Snowdonia Harp Choir) was established in 1930, and was soon recognised as one of the foremost institutions of the period in Wales. There is evidence that Côr Telyn Eryri performed as many as 2,085 concerts up until 1975 (an
JONES, THOMAS (Cynhaiarn; 1839 - 1916), lawyer and writer of verse 1881 he collected and published the poetry of Ioan Madog. He died 22 October 1916, and was buried in Dyneio graveyard, Pwllheli.
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar . 1916); 'Madog' (1918, in Y Beirniad); 'Broseliàwnd' (1922); 'Anatiomaros' (1925); 'Gwlad Hud' (1919-25). His main works, prose and verse, were collected and published in 6 vols. by Hughes & Son, Wrexham, between 1932 and 1937. Caniadau (1934) contains more or less the same works as the Gregynog Detholiad but with the addition of 'Argoed' (1927), while Manion (1932) contains the poet's personal
LEWIS MON (fl. c. 1480-1527) Llifon, Anglesey, a poet In his elegy to Tudur Aled he calls the latter his teacher, and the two poets are also grouped together in Ieuan ap Madog ap Dafydd's elegy on Syr Dafydd Trefor, the Anglesey poet and cleric. Many of his compositions are addressed to the Penrhyn family. It would appear that he died at Valle Crucis abbey, where he was buried. An elegy on his death was written by Dafydd Alaw. His will was proved 28
LLEW MADOG - gweler MORGAN, EVAN
teulu LLOYD Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, ancestor MEREDYDD AB IEUAN AP MEREDYDD with MARGARET, eldest daughter and coheiress of EINION AB ITHEL of Rhiwaedog, Esquire of the Body of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in A.D. 1395, and high sheriff of Meirionydd for life. He was [according to Lloyd ] the son of ITHEL AB GWRGENEU FYCHAN AB GWRGENEU AP MADOG AP RHIRYD FLAIDD.' The deputy-herald Lewis Dwnn, when he visited Rhiwaedog on 1 August 1592
LLOYD, THOMAS (1673? - 1734), cleric and lexicologist son of Thomas Lloyd, attorney at law at Wrexham, of the family of Plas Madog, Llanfair Talhaearn, Denbighshire; the mother was a Myddelton. On 25 February 1688/9, 'aged 15,' he matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1692, M.A. 1695); he took orders, served as curate in the Wrexham district, was tutor at Chirk castle, and became chaplain to Mary Myddelton of Croesnewydd, who bequeathed Plas
(fl. 1268), eulogist Gwilym Ddu associates him with 'Twr Edeirnion,' i.e. Hendwr, Llandrillo, Meironnydd. His poems fall into two groups: (a) in praise of minor princes in northern Powys, viz. Gruffudd (died 1269) and Hywel (died c. 1268), sons of Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor; and Llywelyn, son of the above-mentioned Gruffudd ap Madog. These princes were usually loyal to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, and they are praised for
LLYWARCH LLAETY (fl. c. 1140-1160), one of the poets of the period of the Welsh Princes A series of englynion in praise of Llywelyn ap Madog ap Maredudd of Powys remain in MSS. It is also probable that he was the same person as the poet Llywarch y Nam, of whose work another series of englynion to the same prince is found.
LLYWELYN ap IORWERTH (fl. 1173-1240), prince Son of Iorwerth Drwyndwn by Margaret, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd. He may have been born at Dolwyddelan, the royal manor of Nantconwy, over which his father had exercised a brief lordship which ended with his death at about the time of Llywelyn's birth. The infant prince, being a potential menace to the power of his father's half-brothers in Gwynedd, probably grew up in Powys under the
LLYWELYN FARDD (fl. c. 1150-1175), poet Merioneth. In an elegy to Cedifor he refers to himself as a soldier of Madog ap Maredudd (died 1160), and in addressing Owain Fychan, son of Madog (died 1187), he claims that he was older than that prince. In a poem to Owain Gwynedd he states that he had been with him on Southern soil, but Owain did not fight in South Wales after 1138. According to the ' Red Book ' it was Llywelyn who sang the elegy to

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