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IEUAN LLWYD SIEFFRAI (fl. c. 1599-1619), poet, a native apparently of North Wales. A number of his poems are preserved in manuscript, and these include elegies to captain John Salusbury of Rhûg (see the article on that family), which asserts a close relationship between himself and the poet, englynion of praise to Pirs Griffith (q.v.) of Penrhyn, others welcoming Richard Hughes to Penllyn, a cywydd of thanks to Robert Vaughan of Llwydiarth (see article on that family) for welcoming the poet to his home, another begging a sword from Maredudd ap Huw Lewys for Foulkes Holland, and a few poems in free metre.

Bibliography:

N.L.W. MSS. 1553, 5274;
Brogyntyn MS. 4;
Cardiff MS. 20;
Cwrtmawr MS. 22;
Llanst. MS. 156;
Panton MS. 64;
Pen. MS. 89.

Author:

Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni

Corrections and additions:

IEUAN LLWYD SIEFFRAI (1575-1639 instead of fl. c. 1599-1619; DWB, 413). B. in 1575, s. and heir of Sieffrai ab Ieuan Llwyd, Dyffryn Ereithlyn, Eglwys-bach, Denbs., of the Lloyd family of Hafod Unnos (see John Lloyd (1749-1815; DWB, 583). On 12 July 1591, at Llandrillo church, Mer., when he was 16 years old and she only 11, he m. Margred, d. and sole heiress of Morus ap Siôn ab Elis of Palau. They had ten daughters and two sons, some born at Palau and others at Dyffryn. The eldest s., Sieffrai Llwyd (1607-1626), was murdered at Dôl — y — cletwr, Rhiwedog, and the inheritance descended through the second son, Morus (b. 1619). Ieuan Llwyd Sieffrai, antiquary, genealogist and poet, was one of the literary gentry. He d. 8 July 1639, and was buried in Llandderfel cemetery.

Bibliography:

Arch. Camb., 1885, 133-6;
Powys Fadog, vi, 105-8.

Author:

Evan David Jones, F.S.A., (1903-87), Aberystwyth