Deio ab Ieuan Du (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1460–1480) was a

Welsh language Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut P ...

poet from

Ceredigion Ceredigion ( , , ) is a county in the west of Wales, corresponding to the historic county of Cardiganshire. During the second half of the first millennium Ceredigion was a minor kingdom. It has been administered as a county since 1282. Cere ...

, west

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. Deio composed eulogies to the nobility of the area, including Gruffydd Fychan, a supporter of

Jasper Tudor Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford (November 143121/26 December 1495), was the uncle of King Henry VII of England and a leading architect of his nephew's successful accession to the throne in 1485. He was from the noble Tudor family of Penmynydd i ...

. His works were edited in 1992 by A. Eleri Davies along with those of

Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen (fl. ca. 1440–1480) was a Welsh-language poet during the time of the ''Beirdd yr Uchelwyr'', the professional "Poets of the Nobility". In common with other poets of the era, some of his work consists of praise-poems addre ...

Bibliography

A. Eleri Davies (ed.), ''Gwaith Deio ab Ieuan Du a Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen'' (University of Wales Press, 1992) Welsh-language poets 15th-century Welsh poets {{Wales-writer-stub

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