Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ab Owain (fl. 1440–1480), also known as Ieuan Dafydd Ddu and Ieuan Dafydd ab Owain, was a Welsh poet.
Ieuan Ddu | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ieuan ap Dafydd ab Owain Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales |
| Occupation | bard, bardic patron |
| Language | Welsh |
| Nationality | Welsh |
A number of surviving manuscripts contain cywyddau believed to have been the work of Ieuan, but the only certain example of his work appears to be the cywydd to his fellow bard, Ieuan Gethin.[1][2] The first lines of some of his other writings are given in Moses Williams's Repertorium Poeticum, London, 1726, 8 vo.
As well as being remembered as an eminent poet, Ieuan was said to be "the gentleman of large estate" and a "great patron of the bards".[3] While the name of this estate isn't recorded, local tradition states that it was the place known since the seventeenth century as Duffryn House (near Mountain Ash), and that Ieuan Ddu was an ancestor of the Bruce family. This tradition has been accepted as fact by many writers, including Iolo Morganwg.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Ray Looker. "IEUAN DDU ap DAFYDD ab OWAIN (Ieuan Dafydd Ddu, Ieuan Dafydd ab Owain), (fl. c. 1440-1480), a poet of Glamorgan". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
- ^ Ray Looker. "IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION (fl. c. 1450), poet and gentleman, of Baglan, Glamorganshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
- ^ Owen, Cambrian Biography, s.v.
- ^ Morgan, Jeremy James (2016). "Henry Austin Bruce, the Duffryn Estate and the Development of an Industrial Society: Mountain Ash 1845 – 1895" (PDF). Cardiff University. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- ^ Gruffydd Aled Williams (2004). "Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ab Owain". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14360. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
. Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.