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Question: Was Lleucu Llwyd the mistress of Owain Glyndwr!?
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Hi T!.
Llywelyn Goch (the Red), a famed 14th Century Welsh poet who lived 1350-1390 and "whose best known poem is perhaps "Marwnad Lleucu Llwyd" (The Death of Lleucu Llwyd) one of the finest love-poems in Welsh!. Iolo Goch (1320-1398) records that this was always one of the first poems asked for when young people assembled!. The passionate, moving poem bids farewell to a wife who had died while the author was away from her"!.

Elsewhere I've read that Lleucu lived at Dolgelynen, a farmhouse on the North bank of the Dyfi about midway between Pennal and Machynlleth!. The story goes that she had fallen in love with Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen (son of Old Meurig), but her father didn't like Llywelyn!. Llywelyn had to travel down to South Wales but promised Lleucu that he'd come back and marry her!. However, in his absence, Lleucu's father told her that Llywelyn had married someone else, and poor Lleucu died of a broken heart!. Llewelyn soon returned to Dolgelynen, but instead of marrying Lleucu buried her in the parish church, under the altar, in 1390!. His lament remains one of the main poems in Oes y Cywyddwyr (Age of the Cywyddwyr)!.
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As far as I can see Lleucu Llwyd was wife of Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen, a renowned poet who penned a famous poem upon her death, he died around 1390!.

Owain Glyndwr was born around 1354 -1359, so its mathematically possible!Www@QuestionHome@Com