Wales and its History

Why is Wales not universally considered to be England's first colony? No matter where you look online, you will see that the vast majority of content creators, TV channels, etc., don't even mention Wales when such a question comes up. To me and many more Welsh people, Wales was England's first colony The conquest of Wales and eventual occupation exceed every condition or definition of a colony; Wales remained so up until gaining devolution in 1998.   The most common explanation of what a colony is.  A colony is ..... .....a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country. Since before the conquest we saw areas of Wales being colonised by Normans; they removed the native Welsh from their lands, built castles and towns, and moved in English and Flemish settlers. this was especially effective in the south of Pembrokeshire, where even today it is called little England beyond Wales.  It wasn't just ...

  Gruffudd ap Cynan  1055 – 1137 His father was  Prince, Cynan ap Iago Gruffudd's mother was Ragnailt ingen Amlaíb, a granddaughter of King Sigtrygg Silkbeard and a member of the Hiberno-Norse Uí Ímair dynasty. (Had a number of children, one went onto be a very successful. King Owain Gwynedd (c. 1100 – 1170) and the other Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd (1100 – 1136) who married Gruffydd ap Rhys, Prince of Deheubarth who was the son of her fathers ally Rhys ap Tewdwr .)  He three times gained the throne of Gwynedd and then lost it again, before regaining it once more in 1099 and this time keeping power until his death born in the Hiberno-Norse Kingdom of Dublin and reared near Swords, County Dublin in Ireland. ‘’Gruffudd received considerable help from Ireland, from the Hiberno-Norse at Dublin, the Isles and Wexford and from Muircheartach Ua Briain, because he was also descendant through his mother from Brian Boru, High King of Ireland’’ Gruffudd first attempted to take ove...