Guto'r Glyn (fl.1440-1490)
Guto is associated with Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, where many of his patrons lived. He was a bard particularly noted for his praise poetry and as was the tradition he travelled around Wales staying at the homes (llysoedd) of the Welsh gentry. He visited the homes of many of the gentry of Powys and wrote praise poems in their honour. Guto was also a soldier who fought on the Yorkist side during the War of the Roses, but spent his last years as a lay guest at the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis, near Llangollen.
[Stephens; MC]
[Stephens; MC]
Gwrtheyrnion
A commote of mid-Wales; it lay east of the Wye, and conformed approximately to the parishes of St. Harmon, Nantmel and Rhaeadr, and the lands down to the Ithon which correspond to the later parishes of Llanyre and Llanfihangel Helygan. It was one of the three territorial units which went to make up the county of Radnorshire in 1536 (the other two were Elfael and Maelienydd). Conquest of this region and Maelienydd was undertaken by the Mortimer family. The name of the territory is based on the personal name Gwrtheyrn, though it has been suggested that this is a title rather than a name. In the fourteenth century Gwrtheyrnion was probably occupied by free Welsh kindreds with some customary tenants in the administrative unit of "Ryslyn". This was one of four units each under a Welsh rhingyll or beadle. The others were Rhayader, Uwchcoed, and Iscoed. The parish churches of St Harmon and Nantmel are both ancient foundations and Llanyre may well have had a medieval origin as a chapel dependant on Nantmel. Markets were fairs were granted by the crown at St Harmon and Llanyre in the 13th century. The principal castle in the commote was at Rhayader, built by the Welsh prince Rhys ap Gruffydd of Deheubarth in 1177. There was a market here by the fourteenth century, by which time the castle had fallen into ruin. The llys of the lordship has been placed by some at Bwlch y llys on the southern slopes of Gwastedyn but this name is not recorded before the nineteenth century, and the altitude of the site, placed as it was on the edge of unenclosed waste until modern times would suggest a much later date for the farm.
(The conquest of Gwrtheyrnion 1086-1277 is described together with that of Elfael and Maelienydd under the heading Rhwng Gwy a Hafren) [G.R.]
[R.R. Davies; Lloyd; Walker; Richards]
(The conquest of Gwrtheyrnion 1086-1277 is described together with that of Elfael and Maelienydd under the heading Rhwng Gwy a Hafren) [G.R.]
[R.R. Davies; Lloyd; Walker; Richards]
Gypsies
The Welsh term for gypsies in general is Teulu Abram Wood, "the family of Abraham Wood", named after an eponymous patriarch who is supposed to have died in 1799. Many can claim descent from him; one of his most illustrious descendants was John Roberts of Newtown, harper).
[Jarman: The Welsh Gypsies]
[Jarman: The Welsh Gypsies]
Gwynn, Lewis (fl.1610)
The son and heir of Morgan Gwynn (see below) of Llanidloes. In 1582 he served as Deputy Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in his father's shrievalty and was appointed escheator (see above right) of the county. He served many years as Mayor of Llanidloes and was on the county's grand jury. In 1609 he was first appears as a magistrate and served as sheriff in his own right the following year.
[W.V. Lloyd - the Sheriffs of Montgomery]
[W.V. Lloyd - the Sheriffs of Montgomery]
Gwynn, Morgan (fl.1582)
The son of Owen Gwynn of the influential Llanidloes family. He served on the county's Grand Jury in 1570, served as a magistrate from 1580 and was the Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1582, with his eldest son Lewis Gwynn (above) as his deputy. Around 1584 he appears to have had some of his estates seized by the then sheriff Richard Herbert for debts due to the crown. He was still listed among prominent Montgomeryshire gentry as late as 1602.
[W.V. Lloyd - the Sheriffs of Montgomery]
[W.V. Lloyd - the Sheriffs of Montgomery]