IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION
(
fl.
c.
1450
),
poet and gentleman
, of
Baglan, Glam.
,
and descendant of the family of
Caradog ap Iestyn ap Gwrgant
(q.v.)
; according to some
genealogists
(e.g.
Gruffudd Hiraethog
in
Pen. MS. 178, i, 43
) he m. the daughter of
Tomas ab Ifor Hael
.
Bards
from
North and South Wales
were entertained at his court at
Baglan
, and two
cywyddau
addressed to him remain in manuscript, one by
Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ab Owain
(q.v.)
, and the other by
Iorwerth Fynglwyd
(q.v.)
. A large number of his own poems remain, including a
cywydd
in praise of
Owain Tudur
of
Penmynydd
during his imprisonment at
Newgate
, an elegiac
cywydd
on the death of his children, along with a diatribe against the
plague
which killed them, a
cywydd
to his son, and an
awdl
to one of his daughters. Apparently the account given by
Iolo Morganwg
of the
poet
's part in a
Glamorgan
campaign in support of
Owain Glyndŵr
, his escape to
Anglesey
, and his return from there on payment of a fine, is fictitious.
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
;
-
Iolo Manuscripts. A selection of Ancient
Welsh Manuscripts…from the collection made by Edward
Williams, Iolo Morganwg
, 1848
.;
-
G. J. Williams
,
Iolo Morganwg
,
1926
, 111;
-
G. J. Williams
,
Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg
,
1948
;
-
J. Morgan Williams
, ‘The Works of some Fifteenth Century Glamorgan Bards’ (M.A. thesis, University of Wales,
1923
).
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
