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HYWEL DAFI of Raglan, according to Peniarth MS 101 (262), a poet of whose work many examples remain in manuscript. These include a few religious and love poems, and a large number addressed in the standard convention to various members of the ruling families of his period in South Wales, e.g. Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Dynevor, Phylip ap Tomas of Llangoed in Brecknock, Rhys ap Siancyn of Glyn Nedd (Neath) and members of the Herbert family of Pembroke and Raglan. It appears from one of the two bardic controversies between him and Guto'r Glyn that he was family poet at Raglan. Other ymrysonau were composed between Bedo Brwynllys and Hywel, and also between Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan, Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Hywel. According to Edward Jones (apparently on the authority of Rhys Cain) he was an M.A., author of a history of Britain in Latin and a history of Wales in Welsh, and possessor of well-written and valuable manuscripts. As yet no manuscript of his has been found. According to the Cambrian Biog., Cymru (O.J.), Blackwell, and Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen, the poet was a native of Aberdare, but no proof exists for this statement.

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Sources

• Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928)
• Ifor Williams and J. Llywelyn Williams, Gwaith Guto'r Glyn (1939), 1939, 160, 173
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
• Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
• William Owen Pughe, The Cambrian Biography (1803)

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Published date: 1959

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The Dictionary of Welsh

Dafydd was only 12 years of age when he claimed the throne of Wales. The son of Prince Rhys, the first Duke of Deheubarth, Dafydd inherited the title of Duke of Dyfed from his

father (after his father's title was reduced from the full territory of Deheubarth to the rump of Dyfed). Born on the 1st February 1588 in Cardigan Castle to the Prince and his wife, Margaret Howard (who would live to enjoy the trappings of being the King's Mother) he ushered in a new dynasty, the House of Deheubarth (sometimes called the House of Dyfed) although he was a direct grandson of Queen Elen. Dafydd preferred to underscore his differences with his uncle, King Marc, by making his first official act that of re-writing the dynastic name for himself and his heirs.

Dafydd, Brenin Gymraeg[]

With some indecent haste, Dafydd had the Archbishop of St Davids crown him King of Wales on the 1st March 1600. The coronation was recorded as a shabby affair, "with blood still on the sheaths" and called the Coroni'r Llafnau Gwaedlyd (Coro

Gwales Review

Dyn oedd â thipyn o feddwl o’i farn ei hun oedd Alf Garnett y sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, yn adweithiol a rhagfarnllyd. I’r graddau ei fod yntau hefyd yn hoff o gael dweud ei ddweud, gesyd Dafydd Hywel ei hun yn yr un mowld â’r cymeriad crintachlyd hwnnw a bortreadwyd gan Warren Mitchell.

Llanw a thrai yw bywyd, ac mae’r uchafbwyntiau a’r isafbwyntiau i’w cael yn y gyfrol hon. Magwyd Dafydd Hywel yng Nglanaman – nefoedd ar y ddaear i blentyn yn y pumdegau, a rhestrir pob siop a charreg yn y pentref, a phob person oedd yn byw yno. Mae ei deyrnged i’w fam yn un gynnes, ac mae’r mab yn galon i gyd wrth gofio’i chyflwr bregus ar ddiwedd ei hoes, yn dioddef o glefyd Alzheimer. Mae’n canmol ei dad, ei ffrind gorau a’r un a’i cyflwynodd i’r campau y bu’n eu dilyn weddill ei oes – rygbi, criced a bocsio. Bu farw ei dad o ganser yn 85 oed: dyma’r diwrnod y dechreuodd Dafydd Hywel beidio â chredu bod Duw i gael.

Adroddir nifer o hanesion difyr am yrfa broffesiynol yr awdur, gan restru’r dramâu a’r sioeau sydd wedi aros yn ei gof, er enghraifft 'The Mouse and the Woman', stori fer gan Dylan Thomas a addaswyd ar gyfer y sgrin fawr gan Vincent Kane a Karl Francis. Sonnir hefyd am Yr Alcoholig Llon, a sut y daeth Alcoholics Anonymous i ddangos y ffilm drosodd a throsodd yn eu sesiynau, er budd mawr i’r rheini oedd yn chwilio am ryddhad o afael y cyffur. Ar gynffon y rhestr gynyrchiadau manteisir ar y cyfle i ddatgan barn am gyflwr y byd ffilmiau cyfoes yng Nghymru.

Ar lefel bersonol, bu Dafydd Hywel yn weithgar iawn yn yr ymgyrch i sefydlu ysgolion Cymraeg yng Nghaerdydd. Roedd cynllun ar droed i fynnu bod ei blant yn mynychu ysgolion cynradd gwahanol, y naill yn agos i’r cartref a’r llall bellter mawr i ffwrdd. Wedi ymgyrch filain caniatawyd lle i

1. Dafydd Gam, son of Llywelyn ap Hywel Fychan ( - ), appeared in the census. He died on 25 October 1415 in Agincourt.

Dafydd Gam, warrior, was descended lineally from the native Welsh rulers of Brycheiniog (Brecon); his own pedigree, which can be documentarily established from the mid-thirteenth century, runs as follows: Dafydd Gam ap Llywelyn ap Hywel Fychan ap Hywel ab Einion Sais. Every one of his forebears from Einion Sais (fl.1270) down to Dafydd's father, Llywelyn, had given distinguished service to the Bohun earls of Hereford as lords of Brecon. They had held some of the major offices in the lordship, notably those of sheriff, constable, and master-sergeant; they had stood loyally by the Bohun family during the political crises of 1297 and 1322; and they in turn had been well rewarded with leases, annuities, and gifts. They were clearly the premier and wealthiest Welsh family of the lordship and are a striking example of a native family that flourished under the rule of an English aristocratic family.

When the Bohun family failed in the male line in 1373, the lordship of Brecon eventually came into the possession of Henry Bolingbroke, earl of Derby, by his marriage to Mary, one of the two daughters and coheirs of the last Bohun earl of Hereford. Dafydd Gam - the nickname Gam probably refers to a squint or other sight defect - probably entered Bolingbroke's service in the 1380's, thus continuing his family's long tradition of service to the lords of Brecon. In 1399 he was already in receipt of a substantial annuity of 40 marks; with his lord's accession to the throne in September 1399 he could have looked forward to wider avenues of service and even greater rewards. He, his son Morgan, and his brother Gwilym (or William) were all described as king's esquires early in the new reign. Instead his career was to be dominated for the next twelve years by the revolt of Owain Glyndwr. In life and in legend Dafydd Gam became one of Ow