Wales and its History

Upon the death of Llywelyn,  longshanks did all he could to get rid of any sign of Welsh independence. Firstly he dismantled most of llywelyns halls and castles.  He then tried to kill off the lineage of Llywelyn by executing his brother Dafydd ap Gruffudd and ensuring Llywelyn's only child   Gwenllian along with the daughters of her uncle Dafydd ap Gruffudd, were all confined for life in remote priories in  Lincolnshire  and never allowed freedom.  Edward also took from the welsh  Llywelyn’s coronet, the matrix of his seal, the crown  of Arthur and the most sacred of all,  the most cherished relic in the whole history of Wales, the piece of the t rue Cross known as Y Groes Naid.   It is recorded that  ''Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales and Lord of Aberffraw had deposited this crown (Welsh: Talaith) and other items (such as the Cross of Neith) with the monks at Cymer Abbey for safekeeping at the start ...

Cunedda or Cunedag Wledig (the Imperator) was a  King of  Manau Gododdin on the Firth of Forth around Clackmannanshire. Cunedda and his forebears led the Votadini against Pictish and Irish incursions south of Hadrian's Wall.  Around AD 430 and his  Votadini   army was  invited to North Wales to help the Welsh rid the area of the invading Irish pirates. He did what he come to do and expelled most of the Irish from the area.  he soon established himself in Wales,  in the territory of the Venedoti, which would become the centre  of the kingdom of Gwynedd. He was the first King of the Welsh and founder of the royal dynasty of Gwynedd which lasted nearly 1000 years and was the most powerful in the whole of Wales.  The leader of Gwynedd was often called the king of the Britons. So not only did a Scot  end the dream of Welsh independence by killing Owain Lawgoch, They started it all too.