Wales and its History

BBC's King and Conqueror: Wales played a huge part in real life, but will it in the BBC show. Harold Godwenson, ''1066 and all that'' , the future Harold who fought William the Conqueror, played a huge part in Welsh history before he was killed in 1066. However , I wouldn't be surprised if the Welsh parts are ignored in this upcoming drama by the BBC that covers the period. In the early 1060s Wales was united under Gruffudd ap Llywelyn , a brutal king who united Wales through brutal conquests. During all this he attacked the border areas, which included a famous sacking of Hereford, killing monks. burning churches and wiping out the large English army sent to defend against him. See below what the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle said about this.  "In the same year Gruffydd, the Welsh king, raided in Herefordshire so that he came very near to Leominster; and men gathered against him, both local men and French men from the castle. And there were killed very many good m...

  funny story, The Welsh outsmarted, which wasnt a rare thing in Medieval times lol in 1095 the Welsh began a sustained campaign of resistance. By early 1096 Hywel ap Goronwy had become one of the leaders of the Welsh revolt. That Spring he, together with Uchtryd ab Edwin and the war band of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, laid waste the province of Penfro and strongly besieged Gerald Windsor in Pembroke castle. Unfortunately for the Welsh the wily Gerald outfoxed them and baffled, forced them to break off their siege, though they returned home with great booty. In the meantime Hywel's cousins, Gruffydd and Ifor, the sons of Idnerth ap Cadwgan, operating in Brycheiniog and Glamorgan won a great victory over a Norman force at Aber-llech in the river valley between Brecon and Swansea (Remfry, 211) Gerald of Wales wrote not long after of the siege Initially this castle was built by Arnulf Montgomery, during the reign of King Henry I, from stakes and turf.  Which afterwards, on his return to ...

Once again today I got attacked by older men who claim Wales was never a united country and saw each other the same way they saw the English; this is utter tripe of course, and it is even written in law that all Welshmen have the same status regardless of what Welsh kingdom they were in, but anyone brought into Wales from England had to be vouched for by a Welshman and would get the status as serf. Below are the actual laws. Every day I need to defend Welsh history against so many lies; please be very careful what you believe, folks. so many people want to put Wales down and take away all our national heroes and achievements. :( I always provide sources, but when i ask these Welsh haters they have only opinions or were taught such things before there was an internet to prove them wrong. the thing is you can show them proof that they are wrong, but they won't change. Laws of Hywel also known as Welsh law, was the legal system which applied to all of Wales throughout the Middle Ages ...

 Maybe I should have started with this guy, but anyway, here he is. What a life.  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 took the throne of Gwynedd three times, lost it again, and then regained it in 1099, holding onto it until his death. born in the Hiberno-Norse Kingdom of Dublin and reared near Swords, County Dublin in Ireland. Since Gruffudd was also descended from Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, through his mother, he received a great deal of assistance from Ireland, including from the Hiberno-Norse in Dublin, the Isles, and Wexford...

  Welsh people like you and me that should be remembered part 1 Wales has a history to match any nation, but most people have little knowledge of this, and those who think they do are often misinformed. This means fascinating people like Gruffudd below get little recognition from the people of Wales, and to me that's such a shame. I'm doing posts that summarise events in the lives of people who I believe, if they were of different nationalities, would be household names. Btw What a tv show or documentary these would make! :) Gruffydd ap Rhys 1090 – 1137 Son of rhys ap Twdwr and  Brother of nest . husband of Gruffudd Cynans daughter Gwenllian . parents of the lord rhys Gruffydd was born in Llandeilo.  Exile in Ireland Following the death of his father, Rhys ap Tewdwr in 1093, Deheubarth was taken over by the Normans, and Gruffydd spent much of his early years in exile in Ireland. His sister nest was taken to the court of the king of England where she had relations with the...

  Many people seem to think the Welsh dragon was first used by the Henry Tudor but the Welsh were known to be using a dragon flag around 900 years before.  The red dragon also plays a part in Welsh mythology, which is a lot older still. A number of people say the first Welsh kings after the Romans left used the a dragon flag of some sort but the first use of  a dragon as we know it today was by Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon around 655

There are a number of people who seem to hate so-called ''nationalists' so much they can't handle the idea of Welsh people having any kind of national heroes or historical achievements, so they tell blatant lies to deny these things; they even claim there were no Welsh people before Wales was annexed in the 16th century. They have nothing to back them up, all the sources of the time prove them to be completely wrong on everything, nothing they say is true in any way whatsoever, here are the favrotes regarding Owain Glyndwr, but another one is the 8000 who fought for England against Llyweyyn, they act like the south Welsh army had a choice and fought Llywelyn because they didnt like him or seen him as a foreigner, but this is the middle ages, South Wales was mostly in English hands, ruled by marcher lords, people in these lord ships were required to fight when called upon, , its the sam with the Welsh army that fought wallace in Scotland, many sources say they didnt want...