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 (q.v.), and a satirical poem to Padrig Wyddel (Patrick the Irishman).
Bibliography:
- N.L.W. MS. 1553;
- Wynnstay MS. 1;
- Jones and Lewis, Mynegai;
- Cymru (O.J.).
- The dates given in Blackwell; Em. W.; ‘Gweirydd ap Rhys,’ H. Llen. Gym. (Gweirydd ap Rhys); Enw. F.; William Owen Pughe, Cambr. Biog. are too late.
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
