Gruffydd Robert

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Gruffydd Robert (1527–98) was a Welsh Catholic priest and humanist scholar who in 1567 wrote a pioneering Welsh grammar while in exile in Italy with his uncle and fellow-writer Morys Clynnog.

Life

Gruffydd Robert was born in

Gruffydd Robert and Morys Clynnog chose to leave Wales for the continent after Elizabeth became Queen. By January 1563 they were in Rome, where Gruffydd was ordained priest. Both he and Morys Clynnog became chaplains to the English Hospice (which in 1579 would become the English College) in that city.

By 1567, when the first part of his grammar was published, Gruffydd Robert was in

In 1582 Gruffydd Robert requested retirement from publicly preaching in the cathedral of Milan; there being no other position vacant, he received a diocesan pension. After Borromeo's death in November 1584 he would have had more time to work on his grammar.[2] Gruffydd died on 15 May 1598 in the Archbishop's Palace in Milan.

His Grammar

The first part of Gruffydd Robert's groundbreaking grammar of Welsh was published as Dosbarth Byrr ar y rhann gyntaf i ramadeg Cymraeg ('A brief analysis of the first part of a Welsh Grammar') in Milan on

• T. Gwynfor Griffith, 'Italian Humanism and Welsh Prose' in Yorkshire Celtic Studies (vol. vi, 1953–58).
• D. Rhys Phillips, Dr. Griffith Robert, Canon of Milan (1922).
• G. J. Williams (ed.), Gramadeg Gruffydd Robert (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1939). This remains the standard edition of Gruffydd Robert's grammar, with an extensive introduction.
• M. P. Bryant-Quinn, 'Dyddiadau a Chefndir Gruffydd Robert, Milan: Gwybodaeth Newydd', Welsh History Review/Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru, 29/4 (2019), 532–61.

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