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Hello, on September 16th, 1400, Owingland do a supporters gathered in the Valley of the

River D where they proclaimed him Prince of Wales.

So began a revolt against the English king and Ritherforth.

He led to parliaments in Wales, to the capture of English castles, laws and land, and to

alliances which promised Glendor a rule of Wales and the Midlands.

It took a decade for Henry to regain control.

Glendor eluded him, leading skirmishes before disappearing, and according to myth he didn't

die, but lies sleeping in a cave, ready to fight for Wales again.

With me to discuss, Owingland do our Hugh Price, Professor of Welsh History at Bungle University,

and then Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol, and Chris

Gibbon Wilson, Emeritus, Professor of Medieval History at the Universities and Andrews.

Hugh Price, how did Wales, how did it come under English control?

Wales had been conquered in the late 13th century by King Edward I, but that was the culmination

of about 200 years of attempts to conquer parts of Wales, starting soon after the Norman

conquest of England in 1066.

And the result had been that Wales was divided between parts under the native Welsh rulers

and those under Marchalords.

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