Meilyr ap Gwalchmai (fl. second half of the 12th century) was the son of the
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poet
Gwalchmai ap Meilyr
Gwalchmai ap Meilyr ( fl. 1130 – 1180) was a Welsh-language court poet, connected with Trewalchmai in Anglesey. He was one of the earliest of the ''Gogynfeirdd'' ("less early poets") or ''Beirdd y Tywysogion'' ("Poets of the Princes"). He compos ...
(
fl. 1130–1180) and brother of another poet,
Einion ap Gwalchmai
The Welsh court poet Einion ap Gwalchmai ( fl. 1202–1223) was the son of the poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr and brother of the poet Meilyr ap Gwalchmai. He lived in Gwynedd. Some lines of a praise poem to Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, Prince of Gwynedd, ha ...
. His surviving work is religious in nature.
Bibliography
*J. E. Caerwyn-Williams (ed.), ''Gwaith Meilyr Brydydd a'i ddisgynyddion'' (Cardiff, 1994).
12th-century Welsh poets
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