Sawnder Sion

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Sawnder Sion was a Welsh poet of the 16th century.{{cite book|last=Bradney|first=Joseph Alfred|title=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time: The Hundred of Caldicot (Part 1)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2fBVAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=15 March 2012|year=1933|publisher=Merton Priory|isbn=978-1-873361-16-0|page=202}} He was known as the "Lion of Llantarnam" and was affiliated with Llantarnam Abbey, although he lived in Llangovan, near Raglan.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=David Henry|title=The Welsh Cistercians: written to commemorate the centenary of the death of Stephen William Williams (1837-1899) (The father of Cistercian archaeology in Wales)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSv77Ry8oW4C&pg=PA145|accessdate=15 March 2012|year=2001|publisher=Gracewing Publishing|isbn=978-0-85244-354-5|page=145}}

He is buried beneath the choir in St Michael's Church, Llantarnam.{{cite web|url=http://www.stmichaels-llantarnam.co.uk/History.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021228053313/http://www.stmichaels-llantarnam.co.uk/History.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=28 December 2002|title=History of our church|publisher=St Michael's Church, Llantarnam|accessdate=14 March 2012}} His funeral was attended by fellow poet and friend Dafydd Benwyn, whose poem praised him:

"In the choir of St Michael

Is a bed. I shall weep

There is poetry there

And great learning and choice knowledge.

And there went the lion of the monastery

Of Deuma yesterday to our regret."

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Category:16th-century Welsh poets