IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION (fl. c. 1450), poet and gentleman, of Baglan, Glamorganshire.

A descendant of the family of Caradog ap Iestyn ap Gwrgant. According to some genealogists (e.g. Gruffudd Hiraethog in Peniarth MS 178 , i (43)) he married the daughter of Tomas ab Ifor Hael. Bards from North and South Wales were entertained at his court at Baglan, and two cywyddau addressed to him remain in manuscript, one by Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ab Owain, and the other by Iorwerth Fynglwyd. A large number of his own poems remain, including a cywydd in praise of Owain Tudur of Penmynydd during his imprisonment at Newgate, an elegiac cywydd on the death of his children, along with a diatribe against the plague which killed them, a cywydd to his son, and an awdl to one of his daughters. Apparently the account given by Iolo Morganwg of the poet's part in a Glamorgan campaign in support of Owain Glyndwr, his escape to Anglesey, and his return from there on payment of a fine, is fictitious.

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928)
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
• J. Davies, Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ, dictionarium duplex (1632)
• Iolo Manuscripts. A selection of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts … from the collection made by Edward Williams, Iolo Morganwg (1848)
• G. J. Williams, Iolo Morganwg a Chywyddau'r Ychwanegiad (1926), 111
• G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg (1948)
• J. Morgan Williams, 'The Works of some Fifteenth Century Glamorgan Bards' (M.A. thesis, University of Wales, 1923)

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Ieuan Gethin

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q13637529

Published date: 1959

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