IEUAN BRECHFA c.1430 - 1500, poet and genealogist

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 (Peniarth MS 131 (199-308)). Various other manuscripts contain references to his pedigree manuscript (Peniarth MS 128 , Peniarth MS 132 , Peniarth MS 133 , Peniarth MS 139i , Peniarth MS 139ii Peniarth MS 139iii , Peniarth MS 140 , Peniarth MS 176 (v. R.W.M.). An historical work, or 'Brut,' is attributed to him in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales Iorwerth Fynglwyd composed a series of englynion to him.

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928)
• NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 7: The poetrical works of Lewis Glyn Cothi, Ieuan Brechfa and others (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 (Historical Manuscripts Commission 1898–1910), I, ii, 786, 802, 803, 812, 826, 831-2, 880, 893, 978)
• The Myvyrian archaiology of Wales (Denbigh 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

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733268

Published date: 1959

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