Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEDO AEDDREN (fl. c. 1500), bard He lived at Aeddren, a farm near Llangwm Dinmael, Denbighshire. Llangwm and Dinmael are mentioned in his poems. The variant readings of the name of his home are numerous, e.g. Aerddrem, Aurdrem, Eurdrem, Oerddrym. He is said to have lived at or inherited the farm of Coed y Bedo, near Aeddren. It is likely that later in his life he resided near Bala. Like Bedo Brwynllys, he was one of Dafydd ap
IEUAN DEULWYN (fl. c. 1460), poet Llwyd ap Gwilym of Castell Hywel, Llywelyn ap Dafydd ab Einion of Llanllawddog, and his family, Siôn ap Dafydd of Llys Newydd, and John Lewys and his father of Prysaddfed in Anglesey. He composed religious and love poetry, and also one poem of controversy, or ymryson, addressed to Bedo Brwynllys; Ieuan was himself a keen Yorkist, and he accused Bedo of being hypocritical in this matter. An elegy
BEDO PHYLIP BACH (fl. 1480), poet of Brecknock Author of eleven cywyddau. He has been identified with Bedo Brwynllys because both appear to belong to the same district, but one manuscript (only) expresses uncertainty.
HYWEL AERDDREN or AEDDREN or AEDDREM (fl. c. 1540-1570?), poet No details are known of his life. There is in the parish of Llangwm, Denbighshire, a place named Aeddren, of which Bedo Aeddren was a native. It appears that Hywel, too, may have lived there. It is not known whether any connection existed between the two poets. A few of his cywyddau exist in manuscript, but it is impossible to assess his dates from them.
BEDO BRWYNLLYS (c. 1460), a Brecknock poet Llanfor, but see the article on Bedo Aeddren.
DAFYDD ap DAFYDD LLWYD (1549), poet and member of the landed family ] Caereinion (1599), Siôn Huws of Maes y Pandy, near Tal-y-llyn, and Doctor [ David ] Powel, bardic controversies (ymrysonau) between himself and Roger Cyffin, and, also, with Lewys Dwnn, and religious and moral poems. Bedo Hafesp composed an elegy on him (Bodewryd MS 1D (289)). NLW MS 5270B (327) contains an englyn presumably by his son John.
IEUAN ap BEDO GWYN (fl. c. 1530-1590?), poet
IEUAN TEW manuscript, but it is often difficult to distinguish between the poems of the two respective poets. A bardic controversy, or ymryson, occurred between the elder and the Mastr Harri, and between the younger and Bedo Hafesp; he also took part in another, together with the three poets, Siôn Phylip, Wiliam Llŷn, and Hywel Ceiriog, against Wiliam Cynwal and Huw Llŷn.
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet taught in London from 1903 to 1908. In 1907 he was awarded an M.A. of the University of Wales for a thesis entitled 'The Poetic Works of Bedo Aerddrem, Bedo Brwynllys, and Bedo Phylip Bach'. In 1908 he went as a teacher to a boarding school in Taunton, but left after a year because he was not offered a living-out post. In January 1909, he was appointed a teacher in the grammar school at Pontypool
SION CERI (fl. 1500?-1530?), poet His full name was Siôn ap y Bedo ap Dafydd ap Hywel ap Tudur. (Bodl. Welsh, c.4, 27b). Poems attributed to him are found in Bodewryd MS 1D; Esgair MS. 2; Brogyntyn MSS. 1, 2, 3; Cwrtmawr MS 204B, Cwrtmawr MS 244B, Cwrtmawr MS 448A; Peniarth MS 69, Peniarth MS 77, Peniarth MS 82, Peniarth MS 84, Peniarth MS 86, Peniarth MS 87, Peniarth MS 98, Peniarth MS 100, Peniarth MS 103, Peniarth MS 112
HYWEL ap DAFYDD ap IEUAN ap RHYS (fl. c. 1450-1480) Raglan, poet (Neath) and members of the Herbert family of Pembroke and Raglan. It appears from one of the two bardic controversies between him and Guto'r Glyn that he was family poet at Raglan. Other ymrysonau were composed between Bedo Brwynllys and Hywel, and also between Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan, Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Hywel. According to Edward Jones (apparently on the authority of Rhys Cain) he was an M.A
BEDO HAFESP (fl. 1568-1585), poet of Montgomeryshire

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