Gwilym ap Griffith (died 1431), also known as Gwilym ap Gruffydd, was a Welsh landowner. He briefly lent his support to Owain Glyndŵr in the Glyndŵr Rising...
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Tudur ap Goronwy and Marged ferch Tomos (a descendant of Llywelyn Fawr); alongside Ednyfed ap Tudor, Rhys ap Tudur, Goronwy ap Tudor and Gwilym ap Tudur...
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having six sons: Goronwy ap Tudur; Rhys ap Tudur (by Mallt); Ednyfed ap Tudur; Gwilym ap Tudur; Rhys ap Tudur (by Marged); Maredudd ap Tudur. All rose to positions...
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another branch of Ednyfed Fychan's lineage, the Griffiths of Penrhyn, whose head, Gwilym ap Griffith, had married Goronwy's daughter, Morfydd. The family...
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Dafydd ap Gwilym (c. 1315/1320 – c. 1350/1370) is regarded as one of the leading Welsh poets and among the great poets of Europe in the Middle Ages. Dafydd’s...
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Gwilym ap Tudur (died 1413) was a Welsh nobleman and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd. In 1401, he and his brother Rhys ap Tudur took Conwy Castle...
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five sons of Tudur ap Goronwy and Marged ferch Tomos; alongside Ednyfed ap Tudor, Maredudd ap Tudur, Goronwy ap Tudor and Gwilym ap Tudur. Tudur had served...
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Richmond. It was his father, Owen Tudor (Welsh: Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur ap Goronwy ap Tudur ap Goronwy ap Ednyfed Fychan), who abandoned the Welsh patronymic...
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was founded by Ednyfed Fychan. In the 15th century his descendant Gwilym ap Griffith built a fortified manor house on the site. In the 18th century, the...
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nearby Caernarfonshire, in North Wales. Gwilym ap Griffith (d. 1431) of Penrhyn married the daughter of Goronwy ap Tudur of the Tudors of Penmynydd family...
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B (1999). Henry VII. Yale University Press. Griffiths, R. A. (2004). "Tudor, Owen [Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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The Dafydd ap Gwilym Society is the Welsh society at the University of Oxford. It is a Welsh language society, as opposed to a society of Welsh people...
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of the Griffiths of Penrhyn, chamberlain of Wales, and his wife, Sian Stradling. He was paternal descendant of Welsh magnate Gwilym ap Griffith. Rhys was...
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1470s, the family of Gwilym ap Griffith acquired substantial Anglesey holdings from his marriage to Morfydd, daughter of Goronwy ap Tudur of Penmynydd,...
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Goronwy ap Tudur Hen (died 1331), also known as Goronwy ap Tudur or Goronwy Fychan, was a Welsh aristocrat and Lord of Penmynydd. He was a member of the...
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neighbourhood of the later Penrhyn Quarry was in 1413, when a rent-roll of Gwilym ap Griffith records that several of his tenants were paid 10 pence each for working...
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Carmarthenshire. His grandfather was Gruffudd ap Nicolas, lord of Dinefwr. His maternal great-grandfather, Sir Thomas Griffith, who married Anne, daughter of Sir...
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another poet of the same family, Rhisiart ap Rhys, was his nephew. Williams, Griffith John (1959). "Gwilym Tew". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National...
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Offeiriad, and memorialized in poems by his cousin Dafydd ap Gwilym, and by Iolo Goch. Griffiths Jones Pierce Tout, 89-90 Tout, 109 Green, 135 Morgan, 394...
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Tudur Hen (English: Tudur the Elder) or Tudur ap Goronwy (died 11 October 1311) was a Welsh aristocrat and original founder of the House of Tudor. He was...
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was seneschal to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, king of Gwynedd. Goronwy was the founder of the Tudor family of Penmynydd. Goronwy ap Ednyfed was one of the sons...
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Coslett Coslett Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr Dafydd ab Edmwnd Dafydd ab Gwilym Dafydd Bach ap Madog Wladaidd Dafydd Benfras Dafydd Nanmor Edward Davies Gareth...
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lords of Caeo and Cilycwm. Llewelyn's (probable) grandson, Llewelyn ap Gwilym ap Llewelyn, was said by Edward Lhuyd to have lived at the mansion of Neuadd...
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Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn (died c. 1286) was a Welsh king who was lord of the part of Powys known as Powys Wenwynwyn; he sided with King Edward I of England...
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the earliest Welsh poetry through the work of the medieval poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym, and the Methodist hymn-writer, William Williams Pantycelyn, to 20th-century...
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during the Glyndŵr rebellion, were Gwilym ap Tudur and Rhys ap Tudur, who famously seized Conwy Castle, and Maredudd ap Tudur, the father of Sir Owen Tudor...
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14th century, one of the leading Welsh poets of the Middle Ages, Dafydd ap Gwilym wrote a cywydd praising Newbourough for its generous hospitality, especially...
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Richard Ithamar Aaron (1901–1987) William Ambrose (Emrys) (1813–1873) Gwynn ap Gwilym (1950–2016) Charles Ashton (1848–1898) William Ambrose Bebb (1894–1953)...
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Hugh Griffith (1912–1980) Kenneth Griffith (1921–2006) Ioan Gruffudd (born 1973) Edmund Gwenn (1875–1958) Mike Gwilym (born 1949) Robert Gwilym (born...
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Ednyfed Fychan (redirect from Ednyfed Fychan ap Cynwrig)
Fychan, married firstly Sir Aron ap Rhys, Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and married secondly Gwrwared ap Gwilym. Out of wedlock, he had by an...
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