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Ieuan Dyfi

Welsh poet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5990137 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ieuan Dyfi (c. 1461? – after 1502?) was a Welsh language poet.

Poetry

Very little information has survived relating to Ieuan and his poetry. Ieuan composed five poems to a woman named "Anni Goch" in one of which he accuses how false women have been throughout history. Recent research has shown that Ieuan Dyfi was brought before a church court, where he admitted adultery with Anni, a married woman. His poems about Anni provoked Gwerful Mechain to respond with her poem "I Ateb Ieuan Dyfi am gywydd Anni Goch".

References

Further reading

Smith, Llinos Beverley (1993). "Olrhain Anni Goch". In Caerwyn Williams, John Ellis (ed.).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ieuan Dyfi” as welsh poet. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1461, 1502, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1461-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Ieuan, Dyfi and Welsh can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as welsh poet. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Mar 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5990137. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1461, 1502 and 1993.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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 “Ieuan Dyfi” 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.