CYNFRIG ap DAFYDD GOCH (c. 1420), poet

Name: Cynfrig ap Dafydd Goch
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Nansi Ceridwen Jones

Several of his cywyddau are preserved, among them two in praise of Wiliam of Penrhyn, a cywydd gofyn, and one to Tudur ap Iorwerth Sais (Rhys ap Cynfrig Coch in Cwrtmawr MS 244B (52), Gruffydd Gryg in Llanstephan MS 11 (105), Peniarth MS 64 (122), NLW MS 3047C (793)).

Author

Nansi Ceridwen Jones

Sources

Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928) …, 14
Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum 14866 (88), 14969, 14976 (174), 14979, 14997 (113), 15000
Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
Gweirydd ap Rhys, Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 1300–1650 (1885)
Moses Williams, Mosis Gulielmii … Repertorium Poeticum, sive poematum Wallicorum, quot, hactenus videre contigit quot Index Alphabeticus, primam singulorum lineam, et loca ubi inveniantur, exhibens. Accedunt poetarum nomina, et quando plerique omnes floruerint (London 1726)

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q20732718

Published date: 1959

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