ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. 1540-1570), a poetess,
daughter of the gentleman poet, Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llewelyn Fychan (c.1485-1553) (q.v.) of Llannerch in Llewenni Fechan, Denbs. Her mother was his first wife, Jonet, daughter of Richard ap Howel of Mostyn (d. 1540). Alice (or Alice Wen) was b. about 1520, and m., about 1540, David Lloyd ap Rees of Vaynol, one of the Lloyds of Wigfair. Her children were John Lloyd (d. 1615), registrar of S. Asaph, Thomas Lloyd of Vaynol (d. 1602), William Lloyd, M.A., rector of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llanfechain, 1590-1600, and Llanwrin, and canon of S. Asaph cathedral, 1587-1600, and Edward Lloyd (d. 1639), proctor of S. Asaph. Little has been preserved of her bardic compositions — englynion on the type of husband she desired and on her views on her father's second marriage in old age, and a cywydd to reconcile Grigor y Moch and Davydd Llwyd Lwdwn.
Bibliography:
- Powys Fadog, v, 297-9;
- Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd, 55;
- Pen. MS. 287 (207, 276);
- N.L.W. MSS. 1553 (555), 6681 (404), 7008 (105), 11993 (14);
- Cwrtmawr MS. 13 (72), 25 (3-4, 103-4);
- Llanst. MS. 49 (132);
- Cardiff MS. 19 (742);
- Jes. Coll. MS. lxxxviii (43-4).
Author:
Evan David Jones, F.S.A., (1903-87), Aberystwyth
