Llywelyn The Great
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Llywelyn The Great
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Author : Roger Turvey
language : en
Publisher: Gomer Press
Release Date : 2007
Llywelyn The Great written by Roger Turvey and has been published by Gomer Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A comprehensive study of the life and influence of Llywelyn the Great. It explores his reign over a turbulent and politically charged period in which he had to prove himself both on the battlefield and later as a statesman. His generous patronage of Welsh culture, the arts and the church is also discussed.
The Last King Of Wales
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Author : Michael Davies
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-11-30
The Last King Of Wales written by Michael Davies and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Gruffudd ap Llywelyn was Wales' greatest king. Ambitious and battle-sure, he succeeded in doing what no Welsh king before him was capable of: he ruled all Wales as a united and independent state. He went further by turning the Viking threat to his realm into a powerful weapon and conquering border land that had been in English hands for centuries. Having emerged as a war leader, Gruffudd also proved to be much more: a patron of the arts and church, with the trappings of a king who was respected and feared on the European stage. His eventual murder at the hands of his own men narrowed the country's political ambitions and left Wales in chaos on the eve of the arrival of the Normans. Those who betrayed Gruffudd were the forebears of the famous princes who would dominate Wales until the Edwardian Conquest, meaning that the former king left no one to tell of his glory. As a result, 1,000 years after his birth, the would-be nation builder is all but forgotten. Here, Sean and Michael Davies reveal the king in all his glory, telling for the first time the story of one of Wales' greatest figures and exploring the full implications of Gruffudd's rule. For, without Gruffudd, the fate of King Harold and the outcome of the Battle of Hastings would have been very different...
Dafydd Ap Llywelyn
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Author : Steve Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Ylolfa
Release Date : 2011
Dafydd Ap Llywelyn written by Steve Griffiths and has been published by Ylolfa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book recalls the life and career of Prince Dafydd the Second of Gwynedd and Wales (c.1215-46). It aims to promote a seemingly forgotten era in Welsh history and includes guidance about many locations which can be visited today by the historian interested in this period. It also includes superb colour photography.
Joan Lady Of Wales
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Author : Danna R Messer
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2020-09-30
Joan Lady Of Wales written by Danna R Messer and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of foreign hegemony, internal dynastic strife and constant warfare, the comings and goings of women are little noted in sources. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England (d. 1237), the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd, illegitimate daughter of King John and half-sister to Henry III. With evidence of her hand in thwarting a full scale English invasion of Wales to a notorious scandal that ended with the public execution of her supposed lover by her husband and her own imprisonment, Joans is a known, but little-told or understood story defined by family turmoil, divided loyalties and political intrigue. From the time her hand was promised in marriage as the result of the first Welsh-English alliance in 1201 to the end of her life, Joans place in the political wranglings between England and the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was a fundamental one. As the first woman to be designated Lady of Wales, her role as one a political diplomat in early thirteenth-century Anglo-Welsh relations was instrumental. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her overall deployment of royal female agency.
Medieval Wales C 1050 1332
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Author : David Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2019-03-15
Medieval Wales C 1050 1332 written by David Stephenson and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with History categories.
After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the usual perspective of the ‘intrusive’ marcher lords, for instance, it is considered from a Welsh standpoint explaining the lure of the March to Welsh princes and its contribution to the fall of the native principality of Wales. Analysis of the achievements of the princes of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries focuses on the paradoxical process by which increasingly sophisticated political structures and a changing political culture supported an autonomous native principality, but also facilitated eventual assimilation of much of Wales into an English ‘empire’. The Edwardian conquest is examined and it is argued that, alongside the resultant hardship and oppression suffered by many, the rising class of Welsh administrators and community leaders who were essential to the governance of Wales enjoyed an age of opportunity. This is a book that introduces the reader to the celebrated and the less well-known men and women who shaped medieval Wales.
Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd
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Author : J. Beverley Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2014-01-15
Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd written by J. Beverley Smith and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-15 with History categories.
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales is an outstanding work by an author with a perceptive understanding of the complexities of his subject. It is clearly, sometimes passionately, written and is destined to be the definitive work on this matter for many generations. This is the first full-length English-language study of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c. 1225-1282), prince of Wales. In this scholarly and lucid book J. Beverley Smith offers an in-depth assessment not only of Llywelyn, but of the age in which he lived. The author takes thirteenth-century Wales as a backdrop against which he analyses the relationship between a sense of nationhood and the practical realities of creating a structure to embrace a unified principality of Wales held under the aegis of the English Crown. This examination of the triumphs and subsequent reverses of a ruler of exceptional vision and vigour is a substantial contribution to our understanding of the nature of Welsh politics and the complexities of Anglo-Welsh relations.
The Welsh The Biography
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Author : Terry Breverton
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2012-11-15
The Welsh The Biography written by Terry Breverton and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A uniquely accessible history of the Welsh people.
Social England From The Accession Of Edward I To The Death Of Henry Vii
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Author : Henry Duff Traill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Social England From The Accession Of Edward I To The Death Of Henry Vii written by Henry Duff Traill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Great Britain categories.
Social England
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Author : Henry Duff Traill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Social England written by Henry Duff Traill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Great Britain categories.
Social England From The Accession Of Edward The First To The Death Of Henry The Seventh
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Author : Henry Duff Traill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Social England From The Accession Of Edward The First To The Death Of Henry The Seventh written by Henry Duff Traill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Great Britain categories.