1290 To C.1500
The poets of this period are known as Beirdd yr Uchelwyr. The list is fairly chronological but not exhaustive as the work of some minor poets of the late 15th and 16th centuries remains in manuscript and a large corpus of late medieval Darogan, prophetic verse, is anonymous or attributed to early poets. Traditional patronage dwindled in the late 16th century but a handful of bards still received patronage from the gentry into the 17th century. Free verse by individuals composing "freelance" gradually took over from the mid-16th century onwards.
- Llywelyn Ddu ab y Pastard (fl. 14th century) - whose surviving awdlau are recorded in the Red Book of Hergest.
- Casnodyn (fl. first half of the 14th century)
- Iorwerth Fychan ap Iorwerth ap Rotpert (fl. c. 1300) - whose surviving love poems are recorded in the Hendregadredd manuscript.
- Gruffudd ap Dafydd ap Tudur (fl. c. 1300) - whose awdl to a holy well and other love poems are recorded in the Red Book of Hergest.
- Phylip Brydydd (fl. c. 1300–1325)
- Llywelyn Brydydd Hoddnant (fl. c. 1300–1350) - whose awdlau in praise of Ieuan ap Gruffudd Foel are found in the Hendregadredd manuscript.
- Goronwy Gyriog - (fl. c. 1310–1360) - whose awdl to Madog ab Iorwerth, bishop of Bangor, and elegy to Gwenhwyfar are found in the Red Book of Hergest.
- Madog Benfras (fl. c. 1320–1360) - best known for his / elegy on Dafydd ap Gwilym.
- Dafydd ap Gwilym (c. 1320 – c. 1370)
- Iolo Goch (1320–1398)
- Rhys Goch Eryri (1330–1420)
- Gruffudd Gryg (fl. c.1340–1380)
- Gruffudd ab Adda (fl. mid 14th century)
- Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen (fl. c. 1350–1390)
- Gruffudd ap Maredudd ap Dafydd (1352–1382) - famed for his awdlau to the Chester Rood and the Virgin Mary, and for his elegy to Gwenhwyfar of Pentraeth.
- Einion Offeiriad (died 1356)
- Tudur ap Gwyn Hagr (fl. second half of the 14th century)
- Ithel Ddu (fl. second half of 14th century) - whose surviving cywydd is found in one of the Peniarth Manuscripts.
- Iorwerth Beli (fl. second half of the 14th century)
- Madog Dwygraig (fl. c. 1370) - whose religious and satirical poems are found in the Red Book of Hergest.
- Dafydd ap Hywel ap Madoc ("Dafydd Ddu Athro o Hiraddug") (died 1371)
- Dafydd y Coed (fl. 1380) - whose awdlau and satirical poems are found in the Red Book of Hergest.
- Mab y Clochyddyn (fl. c. 1380) - whose elegy to Gwenhwyfar, "Marwnad Gwenhwyfar ferch Madog", is found in the Red Book of Hergest.
- Gruffudd Llwyd (fl. c.1380–1410)
- Dafydd Bach ap Madog Wladaidd ("Sypyn Cyfeiliog") (fl. 1340–1390)
- Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan (fl. 15th century) - whose surviving work includes an elegy on the death of Henry VI.
- Siôn Cent (ca. 1400–1430/45)
- Dafydd Llwyd ap Llewelyn ap Gruffydd (Dafydd Llwyd o Fathafarn) (fl. c. 1400–1490)
- Sefnyn (fl. 1408)
- Dafydd Gorlech (c. 1410 – c. 1490)
- Lewys Glyn Cothi (c. 1420–1490)
- Tudur Penllyn (fl. c. 1420–1490)
- Hywel Swrdwal (fl. 1430–1475)
- Hywel Cilan (fl. 1435–1470) - who composed poems to the nobility of north Wales.
- Guto'r Glyn (c. 1435 – c. 1493)
- Llywelyn ab Y Moel (died 1440)
- Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen (fl. c. 1440–1480)
- Llawdden (fl. 1440–1480)
- Gwilym ap Ieuan Hen (fl. c. 1440–1480) - whose surviving work includes a poem in praise of the Virgin Mary and another to the ˜Four Daughters of the Trinity”.
- Maredudd ap Rhys (fl. 1440–1483)
- Ieuan Gethin (fl. c. 1450)
- Maredudd ap Rhys (c. 1450–1480)
- Dafydd ab Edmwnd (fl. c. 1450–1497)
- Rhys Brydydd (fl. mid-15th century)
- Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf (fl. latter half of 15th century) - whose surviving work includes a satire on a river that once hindered his journey.
- Ieuan Brydydd Hir (fl. 1450–1485)
- Dafydd Nanmor (fl. 1450–1490)
- Bedo Brwynllys (fl. c. 1460)
- Dafydd ap Maredudd ab Ednyfed (fl. c. 1460) - whose surviving work is a poem written to commemorate the return of Richard, Duke of York, from Ireland.
- Dafydd Epynt (fl. c. 1460) - who composed poems in praise of Christ, patron saints and the nobility associated with Brecon and Abergavenny. Texts of his poems are found in the Peniarth manuscripts.
- Deio ab Ieuan Du (fl. 1460–1480)
- Ieuan Dyfi (c. 1460–1500)
- Gutun Owain (fl. 1460–1500)
- Gwilym Tew (fl. 1460–1480)
- Gwerful Mechain (fl. 1462–1500)
- Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn
- Llywelyn Goch y Dant (fl. 1470–1471) - whose surviving work includes a poem in praise of Roger Vaughan of Tretower, who was executed by Jasper Tudor.
- Owain ap Llywelyn ab y Moel (fl. 1470–1500)
- Rhys Nanmor (fl. 1480–1513)
- Siôn ap Hywel (fl. c. 1490–1532)
- Rhisiart ap Rhys (fl. c. 1495–1510)
- Elis Siôn ap Moys (fl. late 15th century) - whose surviving cywydd to Henry Deane, Bishop of Bangor, is found in one of the Peniarth manuscripts.
- Bedo Aeddren (fl. 1500)
- Roger Davies (fl. c. 1500) - whose surviving cywyddau are found in one of the Peniarth manuscripts.
- Dafydd Cowper (fl. c. 1500) - whose englyn to the steeple of Wrexham church is found in one of the Peniarth Manuscripts.
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