Wales and its History

BBC's King and Conqueror: Wales played a huge part in real life, but will it in the BBC show. Harold Godwenson, ''1066 and all that'' , the future Harold who fought William the Conqueror, played a huge part in Welsh history before he was killed in 1066. However , I wouldn't be surprised if the Welsh parts are ignored in this upcoming drama by the BBC that covers the period. In the early 1060s Wales was united under Gruffudd ap Llywelyn , a brutal king who united Wales through brutal conquests. During all this he attacked the border areas, which included a famous sacking of Hereford, killing monks. burning churches and wiping out the large English army sent to defend against him. See below what the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle said about this.  "In the same year Gruffydd, the Welsh king, raided in Herefordshire so that he came very near to Leominster; and men gathered against him, both local men and French men from the castle. And there were killed very many good m...

  funny story, The Welsh outsmarted, which wasnt a rare thing in Medieval times lol in 1095 the Welsh began a sustained campaign of resistance. By early 1096 Hywel ap Goronwy had become one of the leaders of the Welsh revolt. That Spring he, together with Uchtryd ab Edwin and the war band of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, laid waste the province of Penfro and strongly besieged Gerald Windsor in Pembroke castle. Unfortunately for the Welsh the wily Gerald outfoxed them and baffled, forced them to break off their siege, though they returned home with great booty. In the meantime Hywel's cousins, Gruffydd and Ifor, the sons of Idnerth ap Cadwgan, operating in Brycheiniog and Glamorgan won a great victory over a Norman force at Aber-llech in the river valley between Brecon and Swansea (Remfry, 211) Gerald of Wales wrote not long after of the siege Initially this castle was built by Arnulf Montgomery, during the reign of King Henry I, from stakes and turf.  Which afterwards, on his return to ...

Once again today I got attacked by older men who claim Wales was never a united country and saw each other the same way they saw the English; this is utter tripe of course, and it is even written in law that all Welshmen have the same status regardless of what Welsh kingdom they were in, but anyone brought into Wales from England had to be vouched for by a Welshman and would get the status as serf. Below are the actual laws. Every day I need to defend Welsh history against so many lies; please be very careful what you believe, folks. so many people want to put Wales down and take away all our national heroes and achievements. :( I always provide sources, but when i ask these Welsh haters they have only opinions or were taught such things before there was an internet to prove them wrong. the thing is you can show them proof that they are wrong, but they won't change. Laws of Hywel also known as Welsh law, was the legal system which applied to all of Wales throughout the Middle Ages ...