IEUAN ap MADOG ap DAFYDD (fl. c. 1500), poet

details of his life are unknown, but some of his work remains in manuscript. This includes poems in praise of Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn, and John Puleston, an elegy to the poet Syr Dafydd Trefor, a bardic controversy, or ymryson, with Ieuan Dylyniwr, and a satirical poem to Padrig Wyddel (Patrick the Irishman).

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• NLW Archives: NLW MS 1553A
• Wynnstay Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1
• Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928)
• Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
• The dates given in the following are too late:
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
• 'Gweirydd ap Rhys,' Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 1300–1650 (1885)
• Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru (1870)
• William Owen Pughe, The Cambrian Biography (1803)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733265

Published date: 1959

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