GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD FYCHAN (15th century), poet

Of Tir Iarll in Glamorganshire He is apparently the person referred to as 'Gruffudd mydrydd a enwir gŵr o Fetws Tir Iarll' whose pedigree is given by G. T. Clark in Limbus Patrum, 510. A number of his cywyddau have been preserved, including an elegy on the death of Henry VI, a number of vaticinatory poems, and three love poems, two poems composed by Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Gruffydd ap Dafydd Fychan after reading the elegy of Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys on Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal . Two englynion, presumably composed by a son of his, Owain, are found in Peniarth MS 77 (319).

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928)
• Brogyntyn MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 4 (279)
• Gwysaney MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 25 (92, 219)
• NLW Archives: NLW MS 1578B (436); NLW MS 3077B (71, 82, 183), NLW MS 5268D (15, 39), NLW MS 5269B (205, 219b), NLW MS 6209E (369), NLW MS 6499B (500, 554), NLW MS 6511B (169b), NLW MS 7191B (77b), NLW MS 9169B (29), NLW MSS 13063B (44), NLW MSS 13064D (59), NLW MSS 13067B (12)
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg (1948), 35-7

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733101

Published date: 1959

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