RHYS WYN ap CADWALADR (fl. c. 1600), of Giler, Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire, poet

second son of Cadwaladr ap Morris Gethin of Foelas. Some of his englynion and cywyddau are preserved in manuscript, among them an elegy to his son (Llanstephan MS 54 (259)), and a cywydd ymryson with Thomas Prys in Jes. Coll. MS. 12 (319), and NLW MS 3047C (84), and, in the same manuscripts, two cywyddau in reply to him by Thomas Prys and a satirical cywydd to him by Huw Machno. In Llanstephan MS 49 (61) and B.M. Add. MS. 14966 (576) there is a cywydd to reconcile him and Siôn Phylip by Edmund Prys . The remainder of his work is found in the following manuscripts: NLW MS 253A (284), NLW MS 644B (89), NLW MS 836D (38), NLW MS 1553A (416, 435, 450, 525), NLW MS 1578B (402), NLW MS 5545B (187); NLW MS 3051D (711); Cwrtmawr MS 22B (228); Cardiff MSS. 19 (459), 23 (240, 410), 84 (1083); B.M. Add. MSS. 14,874 (178), 14,894 (105). According to J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 189, where his pedigree is given, he died 23 February 1607, at Chester, and was buried there in S. Mary's church.

Author

• Nansi Ceridwen Jones

Sources

• William Owen Pughe, The Cambrian Biography (1803), 307
• Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
• Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
• Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613, under the authority of Clarencieux and Norroy, two kings at arms (Llandovery 1846), ii, 343
• John Wyn Roberts, 'Edmwnd Prys, Hanes ei Fywyd a Chasgliad o'i Weithiau' (University of Wales M.A. thesis, 1938)

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• Wikidata: Q20734258

Published date: 1959

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