GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD GAPLAN (or Gruffudd Llwyd ap Llywelyn y Caplan, and Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Llwyd in some manuscripts) (fl. c. 1400?), poet

Name: Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd Gaplan
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Ray Looker

Nothing is known about him, but at least two examples of his poetry, one being a cywydd in the form of a religious confession, and the other an elegy to Sir Rhys Ifanc ap Syr Rhys Hen, great-grandfather, on the maternal side, of Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dynevor.

Author

Ray Looker

Sources

Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928)
H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
William Owen Pughe, The Cambrian Biography (1803), apparently the dates given in these are at least fifty years too late

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q18535655

Published date: 1959

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