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OWAIN GLYNDŴR a HUW MORYS

Owain Glyndŵr oedd y Cymro olaf i ddal teitl Tywysog Cymru. Ganed yn 1359 yn SYCHARTH, dim ond milltir o'n heglwys ni, mewn teulu pwerus o uchelwyr Brydeinig-Cymreig, mewn cyfnod o heddwch cymharol rhwng llysoedd Cymru a'r aristocratiaid Seisnig. Credir i Glyndŵr addoli yn ein heglwys ac wedi cerfio yn un o'n trawstiau yn y to mae gwiberod, masgot Glyndŵr.

Ganed Huw Morys yn 1622 ar fferm Pont-y-meibion ym mhlwyf Llansilin.

Gan mai ef oedd y brawd ifancaf o dri, bu'n byw ym Mhont y Meibion, gan helpu ar y fferm gyda’i dad, yna ei frawd hynaf, a’i wyrion fesul un. Yn raddol enillodd enw da fel cyfansoddwr baledi, carolau, a cherddi achlysurol.

Bu Morys yn warden eglwys yn eglwys St Silin, Llansilin, am sawl blwyddyn. Yn ei henaint cafodd Huw Morys ei barchu gan y fro fel rhyw fath o oracl, ac mae'r traddodiad yn dweud yn ystod y proseswn arferol allan o eglwys plwyf Llansilin ar ôl gwasanaeth, yr ildiwyd y safle blaenllaw iddo bob amser gan y gweinidog. Bu farw heb briodi ar 31 Awst 1709, ac fe’i claddwyd yn Llansilin, lle mae slab i'w goffau a dwy ffenestr wydr lliw yn dal i fodoli.

To help create a Heritage Centre to celebrate the life and work of two sons of our village.

OWAIN GLYNDŴR and HUW MORYS

Owain Glyndŵr was the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales. He was born in 1359 in SYCHARTH, just one mile from our church, into a powerful family of the Anglo-Welsh nobility, during a time of relative peace between the tribes of Wales and the English aristocracy. It is believed that Glyndwr worshipped at our church and a beam in our roof is engraved with wyverns, Glyndŵr’s mascot.

Huw Morys was born in 1622 at Pont-y-Meibion farm in the parish of Llansilin.

Being a younger (the third) son, he lived at Pont y Meibion, helping on the farm his father, his eldest brother, and his nephew in succession, and gradually winning a great reputation as a composer of ballads, carols, and occasional verse.

Morys was church warden at Llansilin's St Silin's church for many years and in his old age Huw Morys was revered by the countryside as a kind of oracle, and tradition says that in the customary procession out of Llansilin parish church after service the first place was always yielded to him by the vicar. He died unmarried on 31 Aug. 1709, and was buried at Llansilin, where a slab to his memory and two stain glass windows still exist.