HYWEL BANGOR
(
fl.
1540
),
an itinerant bard
.
He may have been the person described as
Huw Bangor
(
fl.
1560-1600
) in
The Cambrian Biography
. Some eighteen
englynion
by
Hywel Bangor
have survived, and these identify him with
Maelor
, so that he probably took his bardic name from
Bangor Iscoed
(
Bangor on Dee
). He composed a series of
englynion
on the change of
sheriffs
for
Flintshire
in
1540
. The date
1577
is entered against one of his
englynion
in
Llanst. MS. 41
, but the relationship between the date and the text is not clear. If
Pen. MS. 267 (54)
is correct in attributing to him an
englyn
to the son of
Dafydd ab Edmwnd
, when he had sold his lands except the mere of
Hanmer
, he was composing much earlier in the century, for
Edward ap Dafydd
was disposing of his property
between 1486 and 1515
. The first part of
Pen. MS. 179
was written by
Huw Bangor
or
Hugh ap William Bangor
in
1537
, but he may have been a member of the
Bangor
family, the pedigree of which is given by
Lewis
Dwnn
(ii, 252).
Bibliography:
-
National Library of Wales Manuscript
5272;
-
Mostyn MS. at the National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth
131;
-
Pen. MSS. at the National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth
73, 159, 160, 267;
-
Llanstephan Manuscript at the National Library of
Wales, Aberystwyth
41;
-
William Owen Pughe
,
The Cambrian Biography
(later ) , 1803
.
Author:
Evan David Jones, F.S.A., (1903-87), Aberystwyth
