Owain Glyndwr and The Welsh Revolt

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

England plays Wales in the World Cup today so it only makes sense that Dan looks back at what's often called Wales' last war of Independence against the English. No one quite knows how it began, but on the 16th of September 1400 Owain Glyndwr- a man of affluence from a mixed Anglo-Welsh family took the title of Prince of Wales and lead a bold and bloody rebellion against King Henry IV. Although he was ultimately defeated, Owain Glyndwr is remembered as a welsh hero, reimagined time and again by poets, writers and historians.

Historical accounts from this period can sometimes be obscure so Dr Adam Chapman, a lecturer in Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research joins the podcast to unravel the legend of Owain Glyndwr and sort the myth from the fact.

This episode was produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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0:40.7	When I was little, we'd get in our car and we drive off to see my terrifyingly old great grandmother.
0:48.7	We called her great-nine in North Wales. Nine is what you call the anand or your grandma.
0:54.7	We drive up to Crickith, one of the most beautiful places in the world, Snug, between the mountains of Snowdonia
1:01.7	and the glittering waters of Cardigan Bay. Wonderful beach there. A wonderful ruined castle on the headland.
1:08.7	And my great-nine would tell me stories about history and about our family, most of which turned out to be complete nonsense.
1:14.7	But one of them was about the last Prince of Wales, the last native Welsh Prince of Wales.
1:21.7	Hoin Glendor, and how he'd stood up to the English, attempted to drive the English out of Wales
1:27.7	and establish an independent Welsh kingdom.
1:31.7	Well, given that England now playing Wales on the international stage in the football world cup,
1:36.7	I thought it would be a chance to look back at Hoin Glendor's revolt.
1:40.7	No one knows quite why it began.
1:43.7	Edward I, a hundred years earlier in the late 1200s and the 13th century, he had defeated the last of the Welsh princes
1:51.7	and incorporated Wales into his English empire, building series of mighty castles.
1:57.7	I'm the finest castles in the world that you'll be familiar with, particularly around the coasts of North and Northwest Wales.
2:03.7	A hundred years later, Hoin Glendor seemed to be living the life of, well, you could say, collaborators living the life of an affluent gentry
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