IEUAN BRECHFA [ c. 1430 - 1500 ], poet and genealogist
Name: Ieuan Brechfa
Date of birth: c. 1430
Date of death: 1500
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet and genealogist
Area of activity: History and Culture; Poetry
Author: Ray Looker
Date of birth: c. 1430
Date of death: 1500
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet and genealogist
Area of activity: History and Culture; Poetry
Author: Ray Looker
a native of Brechfa, Carmarthenshire. No details concerning him are known, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript, and part of a pedigree manuscript is apparently in his hand (Pen. MS. 131 (199-308)). Various other manuscripts contain references to his pedigree manuscript (Pen. MSS. 128, 132, 133, 139, 140, 176 (v. R.W.M.). An historical work, or ‘Brut,’ is attributed to him in Myv. Arch. Iorwerth Fynglwyd composed a series of englynion to him.
Author
- Ray Looker, Cardiff
- Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928);
- Llanstephan Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 7 (1, 4, 7, 11, 15, 18, 22, 25, 29, 35, 38, 103, 161, 257, 351, 352);
- NLW MSS 728 (5), 13064 (5);
- Reports on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language (1898–1910), I, ii, 786, 802, 803, 812, 826, 831-2, 880, 893, 978);
- The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 1870, 716;
- Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875);
- J. Davies, Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ, dictionarium duplex (1632);
- [ The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1948, 356].
Sources
- Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20733268
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Published date: 1959
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