RHOBERT AP DAFYDD LLWYD (fl. c. 1550-1590), a poet

who was, according to Swansea MS. 1 (277, 357), a native of Crymlyn (Cremlyn) in Anglesey. No details are known concerning his life, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript. They include a religious poem, a satire to a fox which had killed the poet's lambs, and also poems addressed to Simon Thelwall of Plas y Ward (see the article on that family) and his third wife (Margaret, daughter of Sir William Gruffydd of Penrhyn), to Elis Prys of Plas Iolyn, and to Siôn Conwy. Gutun Tomas and he composed satires upon each other.

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum 14881, 14882, 14906
• Brogyntyn MSS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 4, 6
• Cardiff Manuscripts 20, 63, 84
• NLW Archives: Cwrtmawr MS 114B, Cwrtmawr MS 197A, Cwrtmawr MS 242B, Cwrtmawr MS 448A
• Glyn Davies Manuscript at the National Library of Wales 1
• NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 124: Poetry
• NLW MSS 644, 5272, 5273, 5545, 6499
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
• William Owen Pughe, The Cambrian Biography (1803)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20734232

Published date: 1959

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