IEUAN RUDD (fl. 1470), a Glamorgan bard
who sang in the second half of the 15th cent. Two cywyddau by him survive, the one upon the marriage-feast of Sir Rhys ap Thomas (q.v.) and Sioned (Janet), daughter of Thomas Mathew, of Radyr, Glam., and the other to the ‘paderau main crisial’ (the crystal paternosters). There is a reference to him in a cywydd which Llywelyn Goch y Dant (q.v.) wrote c. 1470 to invite Ieuan ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys to visit Tir Iarll and the district; in them he is described as a man ‘o Lyn Rhoddne Wlad’ — the first bard from that valley, as far as is known. The cywydd on the paternosters shows that he possessed considerable descriptive skill.
Bibliography:
- G. J. Williams, Tradd. Llen. Morgannwg, 1948, 36, 38-9.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Griffith John Williams, M.A., (1892-1963), Gwaelod-y-garth, Cardiff
