Owain Glyndwr, Welsh Rebel

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Who was the self-proclaimed Prince of Wales, who was foretold in myth to free Wales from the tyrannical English and who was also a fabled wizard?

Dr. Eleanor Janega is joined by Dr. Rhun Emlyn to find the real Owain Glyndwr. They discuss his legendary rebellion against English rule in 1400 and explore the transformation of 14th-century Wales, from Glyndwr's ambitious military feats and his efforts to unite a fractured country, to the myths and legends surrounding this revolutionary character who is still cherished today.

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Gone Medieval is presented by Dr. Eleanor Janega. Audio editor is Amy Haddow, the senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Matt Lewis.
0:02.6	And I'm Dr. Eleanor Yonaga.
0:04.2	And we're just popping up here to tell you some insider info.
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0:20.6	Such as my new series on everyone's favorite
0:22.8	conquerors, the Normans, or my recent exploration of the castles that made Britain. There's a new
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0:45.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanorianica and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the
0:55.2	greatest millennium in human history. We uncover the greatest mysteries, the gobsmacking
1:01.8	details, and the latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the Normans, from kings to
1:07.9	popes, to the Crusades. We delve into the rebellions, plots, and murders
1:14.0	that tell us who we really were. And how we got here.
1:23.2	In William Shakespeare's play, Henry IV, part one, a fearsome magician and skilled military tactician is introduced.
1:36.9	Of him, the romantic and doomed Harry Hotspur Percy says,
1:44.2	Oh, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,
1:49.1	and not in fear of your nativity.
1:52.0	Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth in strange eruptions.
1:57.1	Off to the teeming earth is with a kind of colic,
2:00.2	pinched and vexed by the imprisoning of unruly wind within her womb,
2:05.4	which, for enlargement striving, shakes the old bedlam earth and topples down steeples and moss-grown towers.
2:13.7	At your birth are Grandam Earth, having this distemperature and passion shook.
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