Rhys Nanmor
Welsh poet
Rhys Nanmor (fl. 1480–1513) was a Welsh language poet who lived in Nanmor, 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, 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.
“Rhys Nanmor” enters the record as welsh poet. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rhys, Nanmor and Welsh can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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