The Welsh Princes

Author : Roger K Turvey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317883977
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Welsh Princes written by Roger K Turvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Welsh princes were one of the most important ruling elites in medieval western Europe. This volume examines their behaviour, influence and power in a period when the Welsh were struggling to maintain their independence and identity in the face of Anglo-Norman settlement. From the mid-eleventh century to the end of the thirteenth, Wales was profoundly transformed by conquest and foreign 'colonial' settlement. Massive changes took place in the political, economic, social and religious spheres and Welsh culture was significantly affected. Roger Turvey looks at this transformation, its impact on the Welsh princes and the part they themselves played in it. Turvey's survey of the various aspects of princely life, power and influence draws out the human qualities of these flesh and blood characters, and is written very much with the general reader in mind.

Author : Gary Russell
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1913256774
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here Be Dragons written by Gary Russell and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many centuries ago, before Robin, before King Richard and Prince John, before even Herne the Hunter, there was Sherwood Forest. And at the heart of it, mystical paths were drawn together to protect the future. But something or someone in Robin’s time has chosen now to make a stand and destroy the past, the present and the future; with the help of the dragons, the ancient beasts of legend. And it will take a true hero to stop them. Alone and bewildered, Robin must put right a blood-debt he had no idea had even been raised. And who will fight at his side? Should he fail, Sherwood will merely be the first loss that England will face - and not the last… Here Be Dragons is the fourteenth book in Spiteful Puppet’s Robin of Sherwood collection, based in the Robin Hood universe of the classic ITV series.

Author : Huw Pryce
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708323871
Total Pages : 959 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acts of Welsh Rulers, 1120-1283 written by Huw Pryce and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now republished with minor corrections, this volume provides the first comprehensive collection of charters, letters and other documents issued by native rulers of Wales from the early twelfth century to the Edwardian conquest of 1282 - 3 that extinguished independent rule.

Author : Kari Maund
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752473921
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Welsh Kings written by Kari Maund and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edward I's troops forced the destruction of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1283 they brought to an end the line of truly independent native rulers in Wales that had endured throughout recorded history. In the early middle ages Wales was composed of a variety of independent kingdoms with varying degrees of power, influence and stability, each ruled by proud and obdurate lineages. In this period a 'Kingdom of Wales' never existed, but the more powerful leaders, like Rhodri Mawr (the Great), Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, sought to extend their rule over the entire country. The author produces revealing pictures of the leading Welsh kings and princes of the day and explores both their contribution to Welsh history and their impact on the wider world. They were, of necessity, warriors, living in a violent political world and requiring ruthless skills to even begin to rule in Wales. Yet they showed wider vision, political acumen and statesmanship, and were patrons of the arts and the church. The history of their contact with their neighbours, allies and rivals is examined - Anglo-Saxons, Irish, Vikings, and Anglo-Normans - thereby setting Welsh institutions within their wider historical context. This work revives the memory of the native leaders of the country from a time before the title 'Prince of Wales' became an honorary trinket in the gift of a foreign ruler. These men are restored to their rightful place amongst the past rulers of the island of Britain.

Author : Terry Breverton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445608766
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Owain Glyndwr written by Terry Breverton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever full-scale biography of the last native Prince of Wales who fought to maintain an independent Wales.

Author : J. Beverley Smith
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783160071
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Llywelyn ap Gruffudd written by J. Beverley Smith and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : K. L. Maund
Publisher : History Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780752423210
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Welsh Kings written by K. L. Maund and published by History Press Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sharon Penman
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 1743284993
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falls the Shadow: The Welsh Princes Trilogy 2 written by Sharon Penman and published by Pan. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of The Sunne in Splendour and Lionheart This novel about the struggle for power in England in the Middle Ages centres on the life of Simon de Montfort, a French nobleman who came to England to lay claim to an earldom, married the King's sister, and eventually mounted a civil war against Henry III.

Author : Sean Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783169368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Prince of Wales? written by Sean Davies and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book written about one of Wale's greatest leaders, Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, who can arguably be described as "the first prince of Wales." Bleddyn was at the heart of the tumultuous events that forged Britain in the cauldron of Norman aggression, and this study of his reign offers an important new perspective on the events of 1066 and beyond. he was a leader who used alliances on the wider British scale as he strove to recreate the fledgling kingdom of Wales that had been built and ruled by his brother, though outside pressures and internal intrigues meant his successors would compete ultimately for a principality.

Author : Michael Davies
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752479237
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last King of Wales written by Michael Davies and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...