IEUAN ap TUDUR PENLLYN (fl. c. 1480), poet

Name: Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn
Parent: Tudur Penllyn
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Ray Looker

son of the poet Tudur Penllyn of Caer-gai. Much of his work remains in manuscript, and this includes poems written to members of the Abertanad, Mold, Ynys-ymaengwyn, and Gwydir families, another addressed to Dafydd ab Owain, abbot of Strata Marcella, a satire on Flint, and satirical englynion forming part of the bardic controversy, or ymryson, between Guto'r Glyn and Ieuan.

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Published date: 1959

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