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Category: Welsh Histories
The Last Land Invasion of Britain: Fishguard 1797
Did you know that the last hostile land invasion of the island of Great Britain took place in Fishguard, Cymru in the year 1797? At this point, the French Revolution had been raging on for almost a decade and its influence was spreading to foreign lands. The Society of United Irishmen, an underground republican association…
The Translation of the Bible into Welsh
The translation of the Bible into Cymraeg (the Welsh language) saved and preserved it for generations.
Owain Lawgoch: The Lesser-Known Rebel
I do sometimes wonder just how aware the later rebel/freedom fighter, Owain Glyndŵr, was of his earlier namesake, Owain Lawgoch. They were near-contemporaries (Glyndŵr was already in his mid-20s when Lawgoch was killed in France); they share a first name; were both notorious Welsh rebels and both just so happened to be claimants of the…
The Christian Origins of “Merthyr Tydfil”
Did you know that the Welsh town of Merthyr Tydfil has Christian origins and gets its name from a (possibly historical) legendary figure named Tydfil? Tydfil, according to legend, lived in the 5th century AD and was a daughter (the twenty-third, to be exact) of King Brychan Brycheiniog of the early Welsh kingdom of Brycheiniog.…
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd & Cilmeri (1282)
The reign of Llywelyn was mostly troubled by a rivalry with Dafydd. By 1258, Llywelyn was using the title “Prince of Wales”, something King Henry of England