Y Prydydd Bychan (fl. c. 1222–68) was a medieval

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 ...

court poet A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...

. His personal name is unknown. His father was the poet

Phylip Brydydd Phylip Brydydd (fl. c. 1200–25) was a Welsh language court poet. Phylip was poet to the court of Rhys Gryg, the Welsh prince who ruled part of the kingdom of Deheubarth. Y Prydydd Bychan, who may have been his son, was also a court poet A po ...

. ''Prydydd'' was a grade of court poet, and ''bychan'' here has the meaning "junior" (somebody's son) rather than the more usual "small" or "little", presumably to distinguish him from his father. His surviving work is a small number of poems addressed to the princes of

Deheubarth Deheubarth (; lit. "Right-hand Part", thus "the South") was a regional name for the realms of south Wales, particularly as opposed to Gwynedd (Latin: ''Venedotia''). It is now used as a shorthand for the various realms united under the House of ...

, in south

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

References

Welsh-language poets Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language of the 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 Province, Argentina). Historically, it has als ...

13th-century Welsh poets {{Wales-writer-stub