Anti Welsh lies (The Welsh hate eachother as much as the English) proven to be a lie.

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 until it was abolished by the Acts of Union in 1536, when Wales was annexed by England. 

Here is The introduction to the Book of Blegywryd version of the laws

"Hywel the Good, son of Cadell, by the grace of God, king of all Wales... summoned to him from every commote of his kingdom six men who were practised in authority and jurisprudence... to the place called the White House on the Taf in Dyfed. ... And at the end of Lent the king selected from that assembly the twelve most skilled laymen of his men and the one most skilled scholar who was called Master Blegywryd, to form and interpret for him and for his kingdom, laws and usages."

The Iorwerth versions, produced in Gwynedd, have exactly the same attribution of the law to Hywel and the council at Whitland as do the southern versions. It is more likely that Hywel's name was used to lend some form of “ancestral authority" to the laws.


Firstly , who were the Welsh? Who was classed as a citizen of Wales? The answer is written within these laws. 


From wiki and taken from the laws of Hwyl dda 


Cymry – Welsh for all of the Welsh people – only applied to the free classes and not to serfs or slaves. However, none of them counted as a "foreigner" and, even if they moved from one Welsh "kingdom" (gwlad) to another, they did not suffer that status but were considered fully native.

Those from outside Wales were considered between serfs and slaves, forbidden to offer testimony, and obliged to pledge themselves to a native Welshman (even a serf) who would be responsible for them. This status could only be removed after three generations in the north and possibly as many as nine elsewhere, after which the foreigner's descendants were considered to be native serfs."


So we can see clearly that the people who lived in Wales saw themselves as different from those who live in England and recognised that Wales as a territory did exist at least from the 900s. This goes against everything a lot of doubters often try to portray; they have nothing to back up their claims, while there are many documents that prove them wrong, but they won't change their view which makes it obvious that their opinions are more political. 

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