"In circa 1552 Elis Gruffudd completed his massive chronicle of the history of the world from the Creation to his era. The chronicle (which is in Welsh) was divided in two, and in the second part, NLW Manuscript 3054D (Volumes i & ii), which is now on the Library’s website, we are told the history of England and Wales from the time of William the Conqueror to 1552.
Elis Gruffudd (‘The soldier of Calais’) was born circa 1490 in Upper Gronant in the parish of Llanasa, Flintshire. He joined the English army in about 1510 and fought in Holland and Spain. By 1518 he was working for Sir Robert Wingfield, a gentleman from Suffolk, and in 1520 he moved to Calais where Wingfield was an ambassador (and which was a part of England at the time)."
The announcement: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru - The National Library of Wales
Elis Gruffudd webpage
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