Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn ( fl. 1480) was a

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poet of the late mediaeval period. Ieuan was born at Caer-Gai, near

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(present-day

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) and was the son of two notable poets:

Tudur Penllyn Tudur Penllyn (fl. c. 1420 – 1490) was a Welsh language poet during the time of the ''Beirdd yr Uchelwyr'', the professional poets of the late Middle Ages. Tudur's place of birth is uncertain, but he was probably brought up in the Hundred of ...

and Gwerful Fychan. Through the latter he claimed descent from

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, a 12th-century nobleman of

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. In common with other poets of the time much of his work is "praise-poetry" directed at the ''Uchelwyr'', or Welsh nobility, including members of the Abertanad family and the Wynns of Gwydir.Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn
Dictionary of Welsh Biography Ieuan was of a gentry family himself so is unlikely to have been a 'professional' writer. His satire on the borough of

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also survives along with several humorous disputations with the famous poet

Guto'r Glyn Guto'r Glyn (c. 1412 – c. 1493) was a Welsh language poet and soldier of the era of the ''Beirdd yr Uchelwyr'' ("Poets of the Nobility") or ''Cywyddwyr'' ("cywydd-men"), the itinerant professional poets of the later Middle Ages. He is consid ...

. His work has occasionally been confused in manuscripts with that of his father, and he seems to have had a sister, Gwenllian, who may also have been a poet.Bowen ''et al'' (eds.) ''History of Merioneth II: The Middle Ages'', UWP, 2001, p. 584 His surviving poetry was edited by Thomas Roberts in 1958, in a single volume with the work of Tudur Penllyn.

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