Rhys Nanmor (
fl.
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1480–1513) was a
Welsh language poet who lived in
Nanmor
Nantmor is a hamlet which lies about 1½ miles to the south of the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd, Wales.
The current spelling of the name Nantmor is more modernmost old documentfrom the 16th to the 18th century record the name as Nanmor.
I ...
, near
Beddgelert in
North Wales.
Among his surviving work is a prophecy to King
Henry VII of England and an elegy on the death of
Arthur, Prince of Wales
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, who died in 1502.
Rhys was a family poet of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, and is thought to have been the bardic pupil of
Dafydd Nanmor
Dafydd Nanmor (fl. 1450 – 1490) was a Welsh language poet born at Nanmor (or Nantmor), in Gwynedd
Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It ...
.
References
Thomas Roberts and Ifor Williams, ''The poetical works of Dafydd Nanmor'', Cardiff, 1923
External links
A biography
Welsh-language poets
16th-century Welsh poets
16th-century male writers
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