Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HYWEL ap RHEINALLT (fl. c. 1471-1494), poet whose work is well represented in existing manuscripts. It includes a large number of poems to members of various landed families of North Wales, including those of Ynys y Maengwyn, Coetmor, Clenennau, and Emral; he wrote a poem in praise of Dafydd ab Owain, abbot of Strata Marcella. A number of his love poems and his bardic controversy with Lewys Môn are also preserved; a reference is made to
HYWEL BANGOR (fl. 1540), an itinerant bard englynion in Llanstephan MS 41, but the relationship between the date and the text is not clear. If Peniarth MS 267 (54) is correct in attributing to him an englyn to the son of Dafydd ab Edmwnd, when he had sold his lands except the mere of Hanmer, he was composing much earlier in the century, for Edward ap Dafydd was disposing of his property between 1486 and 1515. The first part of Peniarth MS 179 was
IEUAN ap BEDO GWYN (fl. c. 1530-1590?), poet and owner of the Llysyn estate, Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire, before its purchase by the Herbert family; descendant of one of the younger branches of the family of Neuadd Wen (a neighbouring estate), and therefore of Maredudd, brother of Gruffudd ap Cynan. A little only of his work remains, and this includes a cywydd written to Dafydd ap Ieuan Llwyd of Nantmynach, in 1538.
IEUAN ap GRUFFUDD LEIAF (fl. latter half of 15th century), poet A member of a Denbighshire family, son of Gruffudd Leiaf ap Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ap Dafydd Goch, and a descendant of Owain Gwynedd (Peniarth MS 127 (19)). Some examples of his work remain in manuscript, including cywyddau and awdlau to members of the Penrhyn and Nanconwy families, vaticinatory and religious poems, a poem on Aberconwy, a satire on the Llugwy river for hindering the poet
IEUAN ap HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1480), poet ladi our leding tw haf.' Elegies to him were written by Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Gruffydd ap Dafydd Fychan. There is a tradition that he, like his father, wrote a history of Wales from the time of Cadwaladr to that of Henry VI, but the work is not extant.
IEUAN ap MADOG ap DAFYDD (fl. c. 1500), poet details of his life are unknown, but some of his work remains in manuscript. This includes poems in praise of Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn, and John Puleston, an elegy to the poet Syr Dafydd Trefor, a bardic controversy, or ymryson, with Ieuan Dylyniwr, and a satirical poem to Padrig Wyddel (Patrick the Irishman).
IEUAN ap MAREDUDD ap HYWEL ap DAFYDD ap GRUFFYDD Cefn-y-Fan, Cesail Gyfarch (d. 1403) - see WYNN
IEUAN ap TUDUR PENLLYN (fl. c. 1480), poet son of the poet Tudur Penllyn of Caer-gai. Much of his work remains in manuscript, and this includes poems written to members of the Abertanad, Mold, Ynys-ymaengwyn, and Gwydir families, another addressed to Dafydd ab Owain, abbot of Strata Marcella, a satire on Flint, and satirical englynion forming part of the bardic controversy, or ymryson, between Guto'r Glyn and Ieuan.
IEUAN DAFYDD ab OWAIN - see IEUAN DDU ap DAFYDD ab OWAIN
IEUAN DAFYDD DDU - see IEUAN DDU ap DAFYDD ab OWAIN
IEUAN DDU ap DAFYDD ab OWAIN (fl. c. 1440-1480), poet
IEUAN DEULWYN (fl. c. 1460), poet was a native of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. Many examples of his work remain in manuscript, most of them being addressed to a large circle of members of landed families, including William, earl of Pembroke, and his brother Sir Richard Herbert (both of whom were killed in the battle of Banbury in 1469), Sir Richard's young son, Dr. John Morgan, bishop of S. Davids, Wiliam Siôn of Llanegwad, Dafydd

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