Catrin Ferch Gruffydd Ab Ieuan Ap Ll Ywelyn Fychan, Or Catrin Ferch Gruffydd Ap Hywel O Landdeiniolen (fl. 1555)

Abstract Gruffyd ab ieuan ap llywelyn fychan was a nobleman and poet from Llewenni Feehan near St Asaph, in north-east Wales. Surviving verses are associated with two of his daughters, Alis (see above, no. 10) and Catrin. There is some confusion in the manuscripts between Carrin the daughter of this Gruffyd and the daughter of another bard, Gruffydd ap Hywel o Landdeiniolen, of Anglesey: for example, two poems, ‘Gwedd’io ac wylo i’m gwely’ and ‘Iesu Duw Iesu dewisaf ei garu’ are attributed in two manuscripts to both Catrin ferch Gruffydd ab Ieuan, and Catrin ferch Gruffydd ap Hywel. Sixteen poems apparently written by sixteenth-century Welsh women are attributed to one or more of Alis, the two Catrins, and an even more shadowy Gwen, allegedly sister to Alis and Carrin. Nothing is known of the lives of any of these women.