Lewys Môn (

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1485 – 1527) was a

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poet, one of the

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(Poets of the Nobility), from the ''

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'' (commote) of on Ynys Môn (now

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), north

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. About 110 of his poems survive, mostly traditional praise poems and elegies for members of the Welsh gentry, especially of north Wales. His will was proved on 28 June 1527, and an elegy for him was written by Dafydd Alaw

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Bibliography

*Eurys Rowlands (ed.), ''Gwaith Lewys Môn'' (Cardiff, 1979). The standard edition of Lewys' poetry. 1520s deaths 16th-century Welsh poets 16th-century Welsh male writers Lewys Mon People from Anglesey Year of birth unknown {{Wales-writer-stub