Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Brwynllys, Bedo

1316512Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 07 — Brwynllys, Bedo1886Arthur Miller

BRWYNLLYS, BEDO (fl. 1450–1480), a Welsh poet, so named from his birthplace, Brwynllys in Herefordshire. Many poems by him, chiefly odes, are preserved in the Welsh School MSS. now in the British Museum, and several short passages are printed in Davies’s ‘Flores Poetarum Britannicorum.’ Brwynllys made the first collection of the poems of Dafydd ab Gwilym, but his collection is said to have been lost in the ruin of Raglan Castle, where it was preserved.

[Williams’s Dict. of Eminent Welshmen; Welsh School MSS., British Museuxm]

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