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Owain Glyn Dŵr
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
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