Owain Glyn Dŵr

• born sometime between 1349 and 1359
• Symbol of Welsh national identity
• Lineal successor to Princes of Powys and South Wales
• Related to Tudor English house
• Studied law at the Inns of Court in Westminster
• Later in the arms profession, squire to Richard III and Henry IV
• Honored in Shakespeare
• Ancestral home found in Sycharth nr. Llangollen

• Rebelled in 1400 because of a personal quarrel with Lord Reginald de Grey of Ruthin
• On 16 September 1400 he began burning and pillaging
• Took Conwy Castle for three months, raising Welsh spirits
• In 1404, Owain ruled almost all of Wales
• In May 1404 he made his greatest captures, Aberystwyth and Harlech Castle, which he used as his headquarters
• In Harlech he held a formal parliament of representatives from every part of Marchynlleth
• He formed a treaty with Charles VI of France to assure military support
• In Summer 1405 he had his second parliament at Harlech
• Harlech Castle was retaken by the English in 1409 when French and Welsh support failed