IEUAN BRECHFA [ c. 1430 - 1500 ], poet and genealogist
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 The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales Iorwerth Fynglwyd composed a series of englynion to him.
Author
- Ray Looker
- 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
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20733268
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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