RHOBERT AP DAFYDD LLWYD
(
fl.
c.
1550-1590
), a
poet
who was, according to
Swansea MS. 1 (277, 357)
, a native of
Crymlyn
(
Cremlyn
) in
Anglesey
. No details are known concerning his life, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript. They include a religious poem, a satire to a fox which had killed the poet's lambs, and also poems addressed to
Simon
Thelwall
of
Plas y Ward
(
see the article on that family
) and his third wife (
Margaret
, daughter of
Sir
William
Gruffydd
of
Penrhyn
)
, to
Elis
Prys
of
Plas Iolyn
(q.v.)
, and to
Siôn Conwy
.
Gutun
Tomas
and he composed satires upon each other.
Bibliography:
-
Additional Manuscripts in the British
Museum
14881, 14882, 14906;
-
Brogyntyn MSS. at the National
Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
4, 6;
-
Cardiff Manuscripts
20, 63, 84;
-
Cwrtmawr Manuscripts at the National Library of
Wales, Aberystwyth
114, 197, 242, 448;
-
Glyn Davies Manuscript at the National Library
of Wales
1;
-
Llanstephan Manuscript at the National Library of
Wales, Aberystwyth
124;
-
National Library of Wales
Manuscripts
644, 5272, 5273, 5545, 6499;
-
‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27
vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77
;
-
Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of
Eminent Welshmen
, 1852
;
-
William Owen Pughe
,
The Cambrian Biography
(later ) , 1803
.
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
