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Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug

Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug (1350–1371) was a poet and canon.

Also recorded as Dafydd Ddu Athro Hiraddug · Dafydd Ddu Athro o Hiraddug · Dafydd Ddu Hiraddug

The great canopied 14th century tomb of the priest Dafydd ap Hywel ap Madog, known as Dafydd Ddu Athro o Hiraddug - ‘Black David, the Teacher of Hiraddug’. Famous as a bard, writer and according to legend) a soothsaying prophet, this vicar of Tremeirchion lies beneath an elaborately cusped arch, on a tomb bedecked with shields of family heraldry and the symbols of the crucifixion (a pew in front f

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Biography

Born at Cwm in 1350, died in 1371.

The recorded working language is Welsh and Latin.

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