Wales and its History

Some violent events in the violent history of Wales, i need more, can anyone help me?  Like it or not, you can't deny it, Wales is a conquered nation. what is often ignored is how brutal this conquest was. people were booted off their lands, English towns were built and populated with English people, the Welsh people were excluded from these places and forced into famine and death, It is these ENGLISH towns that were atacked by Owain Glyndwr, some people twist it and say he attacked Welsh towns, they wasnt Welsh towns at the time. Below are the words written by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in a letter to the English 2 months before he was killed in 1282. You can't get a more primary source than this; it gives you an idea of how Welsh people were treated. It is time the Welsh people of today were made aware of these things because, after all, those treated like this were Welsh people, too, and some of you are descended from them. what evils have been wrought upon us by the English, how...

Abergavenny massacre Sometime in the 1160s Henry Fitzmiles, the Norman Lord of Abergavenny, was killed fighting against the forces of Sytsylt ap Dyferwald, a native Welsh ruler of the area, in 1172 The same Welshman besieged and captured the Norman castle at Abergavenny but was soon returned to the Normans. With Henry dead there was no male heir to take over the de Balun lands so these passed to the evil Norman lord William de Braose, a court favourite of King John of England, a man who was said to be the most vicious of all the Marcher lords. At Christmas 1175 de Braose invited Sytsylt, his son Geoffrey and all of the leading chieftains from Powys and Gwent to a feast at Abergavenny Castle. The intention, he declared, was to meet and spend the Christmas period in each other's company, They would feast and celebrate and make a lasting reconciliation following the death of Henry Fitzmiles. Unsuspecting, Sytsylt accepted the invitation, happy to bring peace to the land, but Willi...