About Lewys Môn
Lived 1450 – 1527 (aged 76–77). Lewys Môn was a poet.
Lewys Môn (fl. 1485 – 1527) was a Welsh-language poet, one of the Beirdd yr Uchelwyr (Poets of the Nobility), from the cwmwd (commote) of on Ynys Môn (now Anglesey), north Wales. About 110 of his poems survive, mostly traditional praise poems and elegies for members of the Welsh gentry, especially of north Wales.
His will was proved on 28 June 1527, and an elegy for him was written by Dafydd Alaw
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Welsh poet
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Lewys Môn was born in 1450.
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Lewys Môn died in 1527.
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Lewys Môn was a poet.
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