Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd

Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd (sometimes more simply Hywel ab Owain ? - 1170) was prince and bards Welsh.

He was wire illegitimate of Owain Gwynedd, king of Gwynedd and an Irish called Pyfog . This is why it is also known under the name of Hywel ap Gwyddeles (Hywel, wire of an Irish).

In 1143, the brother of Owain, Cadwaladr ap Gruffudd, which reigned then on the Meirionnydd and the Ceredigion was implied in the murder of Anarawd ap Gruffudd of Deheubarth. In answer, it sent Hywel to conceal to him the grounds of the north of Ceredigion. Hywel discharged its task, while capturing and burning with the passage the castle of Aberystwyth. In 1147, with his/her brother Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd, it expelled Cadwaladr of Meirionnydd and captured its castle of Cynfael by taking it by storm.

With died of Owain Gwynedd in 1170, quarrels of successions between its sons burst. The half-brothers of Hywel, Dafydd and Rhodri forced it to flee in Ireland. It there raised an army and again unloaded the same year to claim its share of the kingdom, but it was beaten and killed at the time of a battle close to Pentraeth in the island to Anglesey.

The bard

One generally considers Hywel as a bard of the talent, of which eight of its songs are preserved, most famous being Gorhoffedd Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd where he sings the glory of the kingdom of Gwynedd, his beauty and that of its wives:

Caraf I.E.(internal excitation) morfa a' I mynyddedd

A' I chaer ger I.E.(internal excitation) choed a' I chain diredd

has dolydd I.E.(internal excitation) dwfr a' I dyffrynnedd,

A' I gwylain gwynion a' I gwymp wragedd.

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