Families of Dyffryn Clwyd
Denbighshire
The Vale of Clwyd, Ruthin, Denbigh and the Cynllaith.
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Families seated in Dyffryn Clwyd
Historic ties to Dyffryn Clwyd
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Dyffryn Clwyd.
- Edward PughThe Ruthin coachpainter's son who painted miniature portraits across north Wales for thirty years, walked the whole country sketching and writing as he went, and produced Cambria Depicta, the first illustrated tour of Wales written by a Welshman in his own country.
- Owain GlyndŵrThe Welsh prince of Powys Fadog who on the sixteenth of September 1400 raised the standard of an independent Wales at Glyndyfrdwy and held the principality through a fifteen-year war that produced the first Welsh parliament, the first Welsh university plan, and the last native sovereign claim to the title Prince of Wales.