Wales and its History

According to the laws of hawl dda the royal court consisted of... The king,   the queen, the heir.  Twenty-four, officers of the court,  sixteen are the king's officers   eight the queen's officers.     Captain of the household troops,    priest of the household,      the steward   the chief falconer,      the court justice,     the chief groom      the chamberlain.  the groom of the rein,   the porter,   the bakeress,  the laundress. 

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 Welsh vs Normans = 118 Welsh vs Vikings = 45 Welsh vs Welsh = 56 Nobody could tell me when the Normans become English, so I simply called them Normans up to the Glyndŵr rising  Welsh vs English   = 41 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  880  940   942 962 985