HUW ap RHYS WYN
(
fl.
c.
1550
),
poet and member of the landed family
of
Mysoglen
,
Llangeinwen
,
Anglesey
; husband of
Catherine
, daughter of
Lewys ab Owain ap Meurig
of
Y Frondeg
,
Llangaffo
. Some of his poems survive in manuscripts, and these include a
cywydd
addressed to
Thomas
Glyn
,
Glynllifon
, requesting a fishing boat from him, a
cywydd
to old age, and a more unusual kind of
cywydd
— an elegy on the death of his favourite hound, called
Bwrdi
. A bardic controversy between
him and
Rhydderch ap Rhisiart
is also found. His poems are found in the following manuscripts —
Bodewryd MS. 2
;
Glyn Davies MS. 1
;
Llanst. MSS. 118, 125
;
Mostyn MS. 160
;
N.L.W. MSS. 832, 9166
. A
cywydd
of praise to him, composed by
Dafydd Alaw
(q.v.)
, is found in
Peniarth MS. 63 (132)
.
Bibliography:
-
Heraldic Visitations
of Wales and Part of the Marches
, 1846
, ii, 207;
-
J. E. Griffith
,
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families
, 1914
, 83;
-
J. Fisher
(ed.),
The Cefn Coch MSS. two MSS. of Welsh poetry
written principally during the 17th century
,
Liverpool, 1899
(Liverpool, 1899), 7.
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
