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| rdfs:label | - Welsh Civil War (Welsh History Post Glyndwr)
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| rdfs:comment | - The origins of the war date all the way back to the fall of the House of Deheubarth. With the death of the childless King Rhys in 1750, Welsh politics entered a Regency era, with the exiled nobility opting for a Regency Council with the Dukes of Gwent and Dyfed heading the council in their turn. Under Meurig Tomos-Seislyg, Duke of Dyfed, a convocation of the exiled nobility was held to elect a new king of Wales from within their number. All three Princes threw their hats into the ring, with both Powys and Gwynedd claiming male line descent from Owain Glyndwr, whilst Morgannwg could only claim female line descent. In the end the result was decided when the Prince of Powys, 39 year old Maredudd, withdrew from the race for the throne. The nobles were then faced with the abrasive, 40 year old
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| Battles | - Llanelli, Carmarthen 1 & 2, Machynlleth, Harlech, Caernarfon Rhudllan, Conwy, Church Stretton, Ross of Wye
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| abstract | - The origins of the war date all the way back to the fall of the House of Deheubarth. With the death of the childless King Rhys in 1750, Welsh politics entered a Regency era, with the exiled nobility opting for a Regency Council with the Dukes of Gwent and Dyfed heading the council in their turn. Under Meurig Tomos-Seislyg, Duke of Dyfed, a convocation of the exiled nobility was held to elect a new king of Wales from within their number. All three Princes threw their hats into the ring, with both Powys and Gwynedd claiming male line descent from Owain Glyndwr, whilst Morgannwg could only claim female line descent. In the end the result was decided when the Prince of Powys, 39 year old Maredudd, withdrew from the race for the throne. The nobles were then faced with the abrasive, 40 year old Prince of Gwynedd, or the more confident but concilitory 23 year old Prince of Morgannwg. Youth won the argument, Rhisiart was young, brash, full of ideas, had heirs already, Owain was 40, his heir was five years old and an only child. Rhisiart had one son and Maria was pregnant with another child at the time of the Convocation. Owain did not take this rejection well and worked at cross purposes with Rhisiart and Rhisiart II until his death at the siege of Caerodor in 1778. Owain's son and heir, Gruffud was the same generation as Rhisiart II, being 3 years elder than the future king. Both young men grew up together first in France and then in Harlech when the Royal Court returned to Wales. Both boys grew up with the biases of their fathers clouding their relationship, then as grown men they competed often as warriors in the fight for Welsh independence, before Gruffud died during the skirmishes of the 1780'a in the Glamorgan/Gwent borders. The feud continued however with the next two Princes. Rhys II of Gwynedd was the same generation as his cousin Gruffud I and Rhisiart II. Rhys outlived his rival Rhisiart, dying in 1808 and having seen Arthur ascend the throne. Rhys was the Prince who ordered the wholesale renovation of Plas Garth Celyn and Ty Sycharth, the ancient Manor house of Owain Glyndwr which had remained in the control of the Princes of Gwynedd following the death of the last Deheubarthian kings. Rhys it was too who developed the stronger anti-southern tendencies. With the Royal Court fixed to the south, the Princely court in Garth Celyn assumed a greater significance in the North. Maredudd, Rhys's son, ascended to the North Walian throne in 1808. A severe man he had little time for Arthur or the Royal Court in Caerfilli. Whilst Arthur remained on the throne however a balance was maintained. That balance fell apart with Arthur's death in 1831.
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