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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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