englyn celebrating a victory gained by the Welsh over the English at Degannwy is preserved in one of the Peniarth Manuscripts. Timeline of major poets 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. Casnodyn (fl. first half of the 14th century) Phylip Brydydd (fl. c. 1300–1325) 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) Bleddyn Ddu (fl. c. 1330-1385) – whose surviving poems are preserved in the Red Book of Hergest. 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 (fl. 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) Iorwerth Beli (fl. second half of the 14th century) 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) Siôn Cent (ca. 1400–1430/45) Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (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) Sefnyn (fl.1440) Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen (fl. c. 1440–1480) Llawdden (fl. 1440–1480) Maredudd ap Rhys (fl.