About Gutun Owain
Lived 1425 – 1498 (aged 72–73). Gutun Owain was a poet, genealogist and writer.
Gutun Owain (fl. 1456–1497) was a poet in the Welsh language. He was born near Oswestry in what is now north Shropshire and was a student of Dafydd ab Edmwnd.
Gutun Owain was closely associated with the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis where he was the principal scribe of the S text of Brenhinoedd y Saeson preserved in the Black Book of Basingwerk, and where he may have been responsible for the continuation of that chronicle from 1333 to its end in 1461.
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Welsh poet
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Gutun Owain was born in 1425.
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Gutun Owain died in 1498.
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Gutun Owain was a poet, genealogist and writer.
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