MAB Y CLOCHYDDYN (fl. c. 1380), a poet

who is reputed to have been a native of Llanafan-fawr, Brecknock. Two examples of his work are found in the ‘Red Book of Hergest’ and a number of other manuscripts. They are an elegy to Gwenhwyfar, daughter of Madog and wife of Hywel ap Tudur ap Gruffudd of Anglesey, and two englynion.

Author

• Ray Looker, Cardiff

Sources

• The Poetry in the Red Book of Hergest (1911), 1350-2;
• Llanstephan Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 133;
• NLW MS 4973;
• Peniarth Manuscript in the National Library of Wales 118;
• The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 1870, 338;
• 'Dictionary of Welsh Biography';
• J. Davies, Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ, dictionarium duplex (1632);
• Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13129861

Published date: 1959

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