DAFYDD ap IEUAN ap IORWERTH
(d.
1503
),
bishop of S. Asaph
,
was, according to the pedigrees, descended from
Tudur ap Rhys Sais
. The family was seated in
Trefor
, near
Llangollen
, perhaps in ‘
Gavella Rosseriet
’ (
G. P.
Jones
,
Extent of Chirkland
, 15). He became
warden
of
Ruthin
and
abbot
of
Valle Crucis
, succeeding in the latter office
John ap Richard
(
Pen. MS. 176, 53
). As
abbot
, he was a liberal
patron of the bards
, and both
Gutun Owain
and
Guto'r Glyn
(qq.v.)
bear eloquent testimony to his hospitality. On the death of
Michael
Diacon
he was promoted to the see and consecrated by
archbishop
Morton
on
26 April 1500
. He d. three years later.
Sources:
-
Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum
(1897)
, ii, 95;
-
Gwaith Guto'r Glyn
(1939)
(Cardiff,
1939
);
-
J. Y. W. Lloyd
,
History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher,
and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog
, iii, 385.
Author:
Sir John Edward Lloyd, D.Litt., F.B.A., F.S.A. (1861-1947), Bangor
