IEUAN DU'R BILWG
(
fl.
c.
1470
),
poet
;
no details concerning his life are known, but three interesting poems by him remain, these being (1) ‘
Cywydd y Gown Coch
’, (2) a begging ‘
Llyfr y Greal
’ (see
Cywyddau'r Ychwanegiad
, 144) from the
abbot of Glyn Nedd
, and (3)
a cywydd
in which the poet seeks the whereabouts of
Llywelyn Goch y Dant
(q.v.)
from a woman winnowing barley.
Bibliography:
-
Jones
and
Lewis
,
Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau
, and
,
1928
;
-
‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27
vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77
;
-
Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a
bywgraphyddol
, 1875
;
-
J. Davies
,
Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ,
dictionarium duplex
, 1632
;
-
William Owen Pughe
,
The Cambrian Biography
(later ) , 1803
;
-
G. J. Williams
,
Iolo Morganwg
,
1926
;
-
Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg
,
1948
, 13, 37, 38, 39, 46;
-
J. Morgan Williams
, ‘The Works of some Fifteenth Century Glamorgan Bards’ (University of Wales, M.A. dissertation,
1923
).
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
