SION LEIAF, ‘Syr ’ (fl. c. 1480), poet and cleric;
son of Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf (q.v.) of Denbighshire, and a descendant of Owain Gwynedd (Pen. MS. 127 (20)). No details regarding his life are known, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript. These include two religious poems, one being a confession and the other a poem on the vernicle, a poem in praise of Richard Kyffin, dean of Bangor, a love poem, and another to the owl. (The last one is attributed in various other manuscripts to Dafydd ap Gwilym, and also to Robert Leiaf, a relative of Syr Siôn).
Bibliography:
- Mostyn MS. 129 (220);
- Gwysaney MS. 25 (196);
- Cardiff MSS. 7 (766), 47 (197);
- Llanst. MS. 125 (151);
- Pen. MS. 76 (136).
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
