HYWEL ap RHEINALLT
, or
HYWEL RHEINALLT
(
fl.
c.
1471-1494
), a
poet
whose work is well represented in existing manuscripts. It includes a large number of poems to members of various landed families of
North Wales
, including those of
Ynys y Maengwyn
,
Coetmor
,
Clenennau
, and
Emral
; he wrote a poem in praise of
Dafydd ab Owain
(q.v.)
,
abbot of Strata Marcella
. A number of his love poems and his bardic controversy with
Lewys Môn
are also preserved; a reference is made to him by
Llywelyn ap Gutun
in that
poet
's ymryson with
Lewys Môn
(
Llanst. MS. 122 (620)
). No details regarding his life are known, but he was obviously a native of some part of
North Wales
.
Bibliography:
-
Jones
and
Lewis
,
Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau
, and
,
1928
;
-
‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27
vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77
;
-
William Owen Pughe
,
The Cambrian Biography
(later ) , 1803
.
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
