Wales and its History

Look at this 🙂 AD 1258, 18th day of March Transaction: Agreement of mutual confederation and friendship between men of Scotland and Wales; that they shall not make peace with king of England without mutual consent and agreement Document 4/42/2 (Foedera, i, I, 370) Walter Comyn, earl of Menteith, Alexander Comyn, earl of Buchan, justiciar of Scotia, etc., have made an agreement of mutual confederation and friendship with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales, etc.; they bind themselves to make no separate peace with the king of England, to give him no aid against the Welsh and to encourage trade between Scotland and Wales. It also has a list of 48 nobles from Wales and Scotland who witnessed the agreement 🙂 https://www.poms.ac.uk/record/factoid/47422/

The image below is of King Alexander III of Scotland on the left with Llywelyn, ruler of Wales on the right, as guests to King Edward I of England at the sitting of an English parliament. Over 100 years earlier, Alexander the 1st helped English king Henry in a massive invasion of Wales. Henry sent three armies into Wales. Gilbert Fitz Richard lead a force from the south, Alexander, King of Scotland, pressing from the north and Henry himself advanced into Mid-Wales

I live in what was strathclyde. right in the middle of it in fact :) 90% of the people have no idea what im on about when i talk of the Britons that lived here speaking what turned into welsh. There are some extremely strong links between this area and Cymru. including cunedda come from what is now Clackmannanshire in scotland. some claim him as the father of Gwynedd and the Welsh nation. Cunedda and his forebears led the Votadini against Pictish and Irish incursions south of Hadrian's Wall. Sometime after this, the Votadini troops under Cunedda relocated to North Wales to defend the region from Irish invasion. Cunedda 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. .........