Power in Gwynedd passed to the sons of Gruffudd, with Llywelyn ap Gruffydd the most prominent among them. Henry sought to limit their authority; his aim was to transform the ancient kingdoms of a ...

The Conquest of Wales was a traumatic event. When Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was killed in 1282 in a skirmish with the Anglo-Norman army at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, one chronicler wrote that the whole of ...

Support for Llywelyn in northern Glamorgan alarmed Gilbert de Clare, the powerful Lord of Glamorgan, who built Caerphilly Castle to thwart the Prince's ambitions The principality of Wales ruled by ...

Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, the grandson of the famed Owain Gwynedd, was born at the old Dolwyddelan castle in about 1173. By 1200, ...

The castle fell to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1257 and b y 1367 it was described as being in a poor state. The castle as a Norman fort was established in 1093, 27 years after the Battle of Hastings ...