IEUAN ap MADOG ap DAFYDD (fl. c. 1500), poet

Name: Ieuan ap Madog ap Dafydd
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Ray Looker

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).

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Published date: 1959

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