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Dafydd ap Rhys o Fenai

16th-century Welsh poet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ20732735 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dafydd ap Rhys o Fenai was a 16th-century Welsh poet from the Abergavenny area. Only one of his poems (written in praise of God) is known to survive.

Editorial summary

“Dafydd ap Rhys o Fenai” enters the record as 16th-century Welsh poet. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dafydd, Rhys and Fenai can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 28-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dafydd, Rhys and Fenai.
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Why this record matters

“Dafydd ap Rhys o Fenai” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dafydd, Rhys and Fenai provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q20732735. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dafydd ap Rhys o Fenai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.