Gruffydd Robert

Gruffydd Robert (before 1532 – after 1598) was a Welsh humanist scholar who wrote a pioneering Welsh grammar, in Welsh, while in enforced exile with his colleague and fellow-writer Morys Clynnog in Milan in 1567. He was an ardent Roman Catholic.

Life

Robert became archdeacon of Anglesey in 1558, but went into exile after the accession of Elizabeth I of England. By 1564 he was in Rome. Later in the 1580s he is thought to have been in Milan assisting Cardinal Borromeo.[1]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. Griffith, T. Gwynfor. "Robert, Gruffydd". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23752. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)