LLYWELYN ap GUTUN (fl. c. 1480), poet

A number of his poems remain in MSS., including an elegy composed to his son Gruffudd, 'begging' poems requesting a dog, some goats, and spectacles, a satire or lampoon addressed to the dean of Bangor (who had instructed Huw Lewis, Y Chwaen, to imprison the poet, rather than allow him to make a 'begging' journey or cymortha in Bodeon and Aberdaron), and another satire to dean Richard Kyffin, Rhys Pennardd, Hywel ap Rheinallt, and Lewis Môn. Ymrysonau, or bardic controversies, occurred between him and the following poets : D. Llwyd of Mathafarn, Guto'r Glyn, Lewys Môn, and Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Rhys Llwyd.

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928)
• Brogyntyn MSS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1, 2, 4, 6
• Archifau LlGC: Cwrtmawr MS 129B, Cwrtmawr MS 200B, Cwrtmawr MS 243B, Cwrtmawr MS 244B
• Esgair Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 10, 12
• Glyn Davies Manuscript at the National Library of Wales 2
• Gwysaney MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 25
• NLW MS 255A, NLW MS 552B, NLW MS 644B, NLW MS 727D, NLW MS 834B, NLW MS 3288Bi, NLW MS 3288Bii, NLW MS 3288Biii, NLW MS 5269B, NLW MS 5272C
• Sotheby Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth C. 2
• Wynnstay Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 2
• Henry Lewis, 'Ymrysonau Dafydd Llwyd a Llywelyn ap Gutun,' in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, iv
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• J. Davies, Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ, dictionarium duplex (1632)
• Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
• W. J. Gruffydd, Llenyddiaeth Cymru o 1450 hyd 1600 (Lerpwl 1922), 1450-1600, 40
• Ifor Williams and J. Llywelyn Williams, Gwaith Guto'r Glyn (1939)

Additional Links

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• Wikidata: Q20733853

Published date: 1959

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