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JONES, EDWARD (Iorwerth Ceitho; 1838? - 1930), carpenter and eisteddfodwr
JONES, IORWERTH (1913 - 1992), minister, author and editor One of the four children of Edward Jones and his wife, Catherine Rowlands, Iorwerth Jones was born October 17 1913 at 90 Melrose Road, Kirkdale, Liverpool. His father originated from Brithdir Coch in the parish of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, his mother from Drws-y-coed in Dyffryn Nantlle; he had come to work in Liverpool docks and his mother worked as a maid in Bootle. They met in Trinity Road
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (1905 - 1970), secretary and organiser of Plaid Cymru there with J.E. again as secretary. As a result of his extraordinary organising talent the branch flourished and became the largest in the Party. He returned to Wales in 1930 as secretary and organiser of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru. In Glan-rhyd (Presb.) chapel on 27 July 1940 he married Olwen Roberts, the sister of John Iorwerth Roberts, and they had a son and daughter. He possessed a tough character
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (Iorwerth Twrog; 1886 - 1934), schoolmaster, poet, and penillion -singer
teulu LACY (DE), lords Ewyas, Weobley, (died 1233), son of Hugh II by a daughter of Roderick O'Connor, married Gwenllian, daughter of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, who, like her brother Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, was the child of an irregular union contracted before Llywelyn's marriage with Joan. During a long widowhood (she died in 1281), she may have resided at Llys Gwenllian on the royal manor of Ystrad Owain in the commote of Cinmeirch, supported
LLYWELYN ap RHISIART (fl. 1520-1565), Chief Bard of the Three Provinces', and one of the most notable poets in the history of Glamorgan He was a Glamorgan man by birth and his home was at Llantwit Major. His first patron, Sir Edward Stradling (see the article on the family), lived in the near-by castle of S. Donats, while his friend Iorwerth Fynglwyd also lived in the same neighbourhood. In an elegy to Tudur Aled he acknowledges him to have been his teacher in the art of poetry, and his use of cynghanedd was smooth, accurate, and
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (bu farw 1282), Prince of Wales Second son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn by Senena, and grandson of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. His career can be traced no further back than 1245 when he emerges as one of a group of magnates in the entourage of Dafydd II, a fact which suggests that, unlike his father and elder brother, Owain, he was favoured by his uncle, and was possibly regarded as Dafydd's destined heir. After the catastrophe of 1246
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 ap MOEL Y PANTRI (bu farw 1440) Llanwnnog, poet son of the poet (Llywelyn ?),who was nicknamed ' Moel y Pantri,' and father of the poet Owain ap Llywelyn ap Moel y Pantri. He was pupil of a Rhys ap Dafydd ab Iorwerth. His existing poetry includes love poems to a maiden named Euron, one in the form of a dialogue between the poet and his empty purse, and a number of ymryson (controversy) poems addressed to Guto'r Glyn. From his two provocative
MADOG ap GRUFFYDD (bu farw 1236), lord of Powys Powys Wenwynwyn.At first friendly with Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Madog deserted his cousin when the latter's fortunes were at a low ebb in 1211. He continued to hold aloof after Llywelyn, in 1212, had re-formed the Welsh confederacy, being treated as an official ally in king John's pay. By 1215 he had adhered finally to Llywelyn's cause, remaining faithful to the end.After his death in 1236 the unity of
MADOG BENFRAS (fl. c. 1320-1360), poet of Marchwiail, Denbighshire. His pedigree is given in Powys Fadog thus: ' Madog Benfras ap Gruffudd ap Iorwerth, arglwydd Sonlli, ab Einion Goch ab Ieuaf ap Llywarch ap Ieuaf ap Niniaw ap Cynfrig ap Rhiwallawn.' His two brothers, Llywelyn Llogell (parish priest of Marchwiail), and Ednyfed, were also poets; according to Iolo Morganwg their bardic teacher was Llywelyn ap Gwilym of Emlyn. Iolo also
MAELGWN ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (bu farw 1173), prince of Anglesey Son of Owain Gwynedd by Gwladus, daughter of Llywarch ap Trahaearn, uterine brother of Iorwerth Drwyndwn, and uncle of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In the partition of his father's dominions he received Anglesey, but was driven out of the island in 1173 by his half-brother, Dafydd. He fled to Ireland, returned later in the year, and was made a prisoner. His subsequent fate is unknown.

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