1555) was a Welsh poet from Anglesey who, as a devout Catholic and Recusant, wrote poetry extensively as a critic of the Protestant Reformation.
Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Hywel lived in the village of Llanddaniel Fab on Anglesey, and was a poet active around the 1550s.
[1] Her husband was Roman Catholic priest Robert ap Rhys, and their son later became an Anglican parson.
[2][4][5] In one englyn, she wrote: Y côr a'r allor a ddrylliwyd – ar gam Ac ymaith y taflwyd, A'r Lading a erlidiwyd O gôr a llan y gŵr llwyd.
[1] Presumably towards the end of her life, she wrote a poem expressing that she "prays and weeps in her bed at night, visualizing Christ's suffering at the Crucifixtion; confessing her sins, she prepares for death", suggesting that she was terminally ill.[2] Many of Catrin's poems have survived through preservation by the National Library of Wales.