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Hace 3 días · The Rise of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was born around 1223 as the second son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fawr, the elder son of Llywelyn the Great who had dominated Wales in the early 13th century. In 1240, his uncle Dafydd ap Llywelyn seized power in Gwynedd, but his rule was troubled. Llywelyn‘s elder brother Owain was killed ...
Hace 5 días · This chapter turns to elegy as a mode of historical writing deeply rooted in memory and affective experience. It focuses on English chroniclers’ inclusion of elegies to Welsh princes of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Rhys ap Gruffudd (d. 1197) and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (d. 1282).
Hace 1 día · Problems were exacerbated when Llywelyn's younger brother Dafydd and Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn of Powys, after failing in an assassination attempt against Llywelyn, defected to the English in 1274. Citing ongoing hostilities and Edward's harbouring of his enemies, Llywelyn refused to do homage to the King.
Hace 4 días · A cantor and treasurer were in office by 1132, shortly after the start of Robert de Béthune's pontificate, but it is quite likely that a treasurer existed earlier, (fn. 22) and not impossible that there was an earlier cantor also. (fn. 23) The change of the cantor's title to precentor came with the appointment of William Foliot to the office ...
Hace 4 días · Joan, Lady of Wales. Three hundred years before Anne Boleyn was executed for allegedly committing adultery, the wife of Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, more commonly known as Llywelyn the Great, was forgiven for the same crime.
Hace 5 días · In fact, so important was this parcel of land to Llywelyn and his ambitions that he pinched it from his son, Gruffudd, and ‘began to build a castle there for himself’. At this time, the ever-encroaching Anglo-Norman lords were building impressive stone castles to assert their authority and status in parts of Wales, and Llywelyn needed to compete with his own show of strength.
Hace 2 días · The verses of such as Dafydd ap Gwilym adopted and encouraged a positive attitude towards military activity, and thus served to underpin the development of the social importance of the uchelwyr. In addition, the book’s importance is increased by the fact that many of its findings can be placed in the ever-extending field of study ...
