Dafydd ap Gwilym

Dafydd ap Gwilym was born around 1315 into a family of officials in south-west Wales, on the side of the English rather than of the fallen princes. He was trained in the rules of court poetry but had no patron: he wrote for gentlemen's households and for himself. He brought European courtly love into his language and perfected a short form that would carry it for six centuries. It is not known when or where he died; two abbeys claim his tomb.

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