Wales and its History

 ..........................the Welsh give the English a good hiding during the war of 1282, Luke de Tany, the nobles Roger de Clifford, Phillip and William Burnell (brothers of the chancellor Robert Burnell), sixteen English knights (and their esquires) and over 400 of Tany's men perished. The Welsh suffered few casualties, (Battle of the bridge of boats ). This victory, and the Battle of Llandeilo Fawr in which another English army was destroyed in South Wales, temporarily delayed Edward’s conquest . 2 significant battles with at least 3000 English souls perished and nobody in England has heard about them, wonder why ? The Welsh had a number of great victories against the Normans and English, when they decided to attack from the island, 🙂 One time they killed Henry firsts, two illegitimate sons he had with Nest . The English don't talk of this, either, do they ? 🙂

As more people are talking of an Owain Glyndwr movie, the same anti-Welsh people are coming out of the woodwork with their usual lies, so I thought I would address some of these LIES. LIE 1,  He fought for the English, his rebellion was about him and not a national revolt. THE TRUTH Yes he fought for the English, but that's how things were back then, we have sources telling us of Scottish kings fighting against the Welsh and French, people think those in the Middle Ages had some sort of choice to fight in these wars, Owain had no choice , he was required to fight. Its the same with the south Welsh who fight Llywelyn, people act like they opposed him so much they all volunteered to fight against him, the facts are that the areas in south Wales were under English control, so again these people were required to fight under these English lords LIE 2 It was a North Wales rebellion THE TRUTH After Gwynedd, it was Gwent and Morganwg where most of his army come from, by the time ...

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...