Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen (fl. ca. 1440–1480) was a

Welsh-language Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales by about 18% of the population, by some in England, and in (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). ...

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 addressed to his patrons. These included Gruffudd ap Nicholas, an esquire prominent in the administration of South Wales, who was also praised by

Lewys Glyn Cothi Lewys Glyn Cothi (c. 1420 – 1490), also known as Llywelyn y Glyn, was a prominent 15th-century Welsh poet who composed numerous poems in the Welsh language. He is one of the most important representatives of the ''Beirdd yr Uchelwyr'' ("Poets ...

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Dafydd ab Edmwnd Dafydd ab Edmwnd (fl. c. 1450–97) was one of the most prominent Welsh language poets of the Later Middle Ages. Life Dafydd was born into a family of Norman ancestry in Hanmer, Wales, Hanmer, in Flintshire (now Wrexham County Borough), north-east ...

; Dafydd ap Ieuan ab Owain of Caereinion; and Dafydd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion of Newtown.Gwilym ap Ieuan Hen
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'' He also produced some fine elegies, religious verse and love poems: 27 works attributed to him have been preserved in manuscript, though not all are certainly by him. Stephens, M. ''The new companion to the literature of Wales'', UWP, 1998, p. 294 Despite many of his poems being preserved, almost nothing is known of Gwilym's life.

Ieuan Gethin Ieuan Gethin ap Ieuan ap Lleision (fl. c. 1450) was a Welsh language poet, of Baglan, Glamorgan. References

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, a contemporary, composed a somewhat sarcastic elegy on Gwilym's father Ieuan, a thatcher who died after falling off a roof. Gwilym's works were edited in 1992 by A. Eleri Davies along with those of Deio ab Ieuan Du.

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