Wales and its History

 Throughout medieval times Gwynedd seemed to be the most powerful of Welsh kingdoms, there were times when Deheubarth took the crown , for example hywel dda and Rhys ap Gruffydd but for the vast majority of times it was Gwynedd. Why though? Was the population of Gwynedd higher than the other kingdoms, so they had bigger armies?  Rhodri Mawr gwynedd Hywel Dda Maredudd ab Owain Llywelyn ap Seisyll Gwynedd, Powys, and Deheubarth Bleddyn ap Cynfyn Gwynedd 1063–1075 Powys 1063–1075 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Gwynedd 1039–1063 Powys 1039–1063 Deheubarth 1055–1063

The same people who like to put the Welsh down and try to discredit everything about Welsh history by dismissing anything Welsh people can be proud of as "nationalist fantasy", also often come up with the words "Welsh fought each other more than anyone else".  So to see if this was true I went through my 77 pages of Welsh wars, battles, sieges, skirmishes, raids etc and counted them.  This is what I found. Welsh vs Saxons =   57 17% Welsh vs Normans = 118 37% Welsh vs Vikings = 45 14% Welsh vs Welsh = 56 17 Nobody could tell me when the Normans become English, so I simply called them Normans up to the Glyndŵr rising  Welsh vs English   = 41 12% Total  317 Total Battles that wasn't Welsh vs Welsh   272 Here are the dates. Welsh vs saxons   616 620 - 626 630  630  633 633 642  655  658 658 682   720   722  728  735 743  753   760  765  769 776   778 784 784  795 796   798  816  818 818 820   822   828  830  849 853   865   870   873  877