IEUAN RUDD (fl. 1470), a Glamorgan bard

who sang in the second half of the 15th century. Two cywyddau by him survive, the one upon the marriage-feast of Sir Rhys ap Thomas and Sioned (Janet), daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, Glamorganshire, and the other to the 'paderau main crisial' (the crystal paternosters). There is a reference to him in a cywydd which Llywelyn Goch y Dant wrote c. 1470 to invite Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys to visit Tir Iarll and the district; in them he is described as a man 'o Lyn Rhoddne Wlad' - the first bard from that valley, as far as is known. The cywydd on the paternosters shows that he possessed considerable descriptive skill.

Author

• Emeritus Professor Griffith John Williams, (1892 - 1963)

Sources

• G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg (1948), 1948, 36, 38-9

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733277

Published date: 1959

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