IEUAN DEULWYN
(
fl.
c.
1460
),
poet
,
was a native of
Kidwelly, Carms.
Many examples of his work remain in manuscript, most of them
being addressed to a large circle of members of landed families, including
William
,
earl of Pembroke
, and his brother
Sir
Richard
Herbert
(both of whom were killed in the
battle of Banbury
in
1469
),
Sir
Richard
's young son,
Dr.
John
Morgan
,
bishop of S. Davids
,
Wiliam
Siôn
of
Llanegwad
,
Dafydd Llwyd ap Gwilym
of
Castell Hywel
,
Llywelyn ap Dafydd ab Einion
of
Llanllawddog
, and his family,
Siôn ap Dafydd
of
Llys Newydd
, and
John
Lewys
and his father of
Prysaddfed
in
Anglesey
. He composed religious and love poetry, and also one poem of controversy, or
ymryson
, addressed to
Bedo
Brwynllys
(q.v.)
;
Ieuan
was himself a keen
Yorkist
, and he accused
Bedo
of being hypocritical in this matter. An elegy composed by
Hywel Rheinallt
(or
Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys
, q.v.
, according to one manuscript — see
Mynegai
) to
Ieuan Deulwyn
and three other poets,
Dafydd Nanmor
,
Deio ap Ieuan Du
, and
Tudur Penllyn
(qq.v.) remains, and also one composed by
Tudur Aled
(q.v.)
to
Dafydd ab Edmwnd
,
Rhys Nanmor
, and
Ieuan Deulwyn
.
Bibliography:
-
Jones
and
Lewis
,
Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau
, and
,
1928
;
-
Bodewryd MS. at the National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth
1 (248);
-
Brogyntyn MSS. at the National
Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
1 (191), 2 (377-83, 534-5), 6 (211b, 224b);
-
Cwrtmawr Manuscripts at the National Library of
Wales, Aberystwyth
129 (121, 193, 214), 448 (114);
-
National Library of Wales
Manuscripts
16 (53), 552 (107), 727 (26), 728 (45), 832 (14), 836 (44), 1246 (165, 409), 1553 (126, 150, 257), 2026 (111b), 4710 (259, 267), 5269 (169, 210, 214), 5272 (86), 6511 (181-8, 196b, 277b), 6681 (454), 10893 (77, 90), 13063 (59b, 75b), 13068 (119), 13070 (183), 13079 (56), 13167 (161, 163);
-
Swansea Manuscript
. 1 (324);
-
Ifor Williams
,
Casgliad o waith Ieuan Deulwyn o wahanol
ysgriflyfrau
, Bangor, 1909
, 1909;
-
Rhys Jones
,
Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru
, 1773,
1864
, 1773;
-
Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a
bywgraphyddol
, 1875
;
-
J. Davies
,
Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ,
dictionarium duplex
, 1632
;
-
G. J. Williams
,
Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg
,
1948
(index).
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
