HUW PENNANT ('Syr') (fl. during the second half of the 15th century), cleric, poet, and antiquary
Parent: Dafydd Pennant
Gender: Male
Occupation: cleric, poet, and antiquary
Area of activity: History and Culture; Poetry; Religion; Scholarship and Languages
Author: Ray Looker
Son of David Pennant of Bychton near Holywell, Flintshire, and brother of Thomas Pennant, abbot of Basingwerk. Some of his poems, all vaticinatory, exist in manuscript. Peniarth MS 182 , written by 'Syr' Huw himself c. 1514, includes, among other items, genealogies, poetry, and his Welsh translation of the Latin text of a life of S. Ursula.
Author
- Ray Looker
- Havod Manuscript at Cardiff Central Library 5
- NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 133: Poetry (173)
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 3077B, NLW MS 6209E
- NLW Archives: Peniarth MS 182: Llyfr Syr Hugh Pennant
- Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
- Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613, under the authority of Clarencieux and Norroy, two kings at arms (Llandovery 1846), ii, 305
- J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (1914), 214
- 'Gweirydd ap Rhys,' Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 1300–1650 (1885)
- Reports on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language (Historical Manuscripts Commission 1898–1910), I, iii
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20733233
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
Article Copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-RUU/1.0/
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