This is for the records.
I have just updated this section of 'The House of Mathrafal' book with the following:
1401 - The following summer Owain rose with 120 reckless men and robbers and he brought them in warlike fashion to the uplands of Ceredigion; and 1,500 men of the lowlands of Ceredigion and of Rhos and Penfro assembled there and came to the mountain with the intent to seize Owain. The encounter between them was on Hyddgant Mountain Wales
Evidences exist proving that this was indeed a Foreign army of 1,500 Dutch (Flemmish) soldier’s whom were sent by the King of England Henry 4 th against Owain Glyndwr with Owain requesting Welshmen from Cerredigion to lead this army to Mynydd Hyddgen where he met them at the place of his choosing – This is the Truth – and within this Owain controlled the Battle which he won.
Amendment:
1403 (Summer) - Prince Henry V at this time set off from Shrewsbury with intent upon attacking, looting and burning Owain Glyndwr’s palaces of Sycharth and Glyndyfrdwy to the ground. Furthermore and this is ‘admitted'; he was unable to find Owain Glyndwr and took over 200 Prisoners whom were considered by the English to be unworthy of being ‘Ransomed’ as it was: ‘Too Generous for captured Welshmen’ and with that they were all Killed’; Henry V then marched into Meirionydd (Meirionethshire) quote: ‘And there we lay waste a fair land with that being well inhabited’ it is estimated that well over 6,500 men, women and children were killed during this ‘Attack’ within which Henry expressed himself as an Englishman for whom and what they are as a Nation and a Race; none were spared the extent of English brutality and atrocity. Sometime after 1417 Henry V had the places of Sycharth and Glyndyfrdwy removed stone by stone so as to remove from history any evidence of Owain Glyndwr.
1403 (Autumn) – The castles of Llanstephan, Dryslwyn, Newcastle Emlyn and Carreg Cennen fell to Owens men as a result of Welsh sympathizers among their garrisons.
Henry Don of Kidwelly was now being supported by ‘freebooters’ from Britany who attackedBristol and other English sea Ports Caernarvon and Beaumaris whilst on the other side of Wales Cardiff was under a surprise attack, the town burnt and the castle forced to surrender.
Issue: Were these 1,500 local men from Ceredigion, Rhos and Penfro who had assembled against Owain Glyndwr or an Army of English troops who had been stationed within these places since the latter suggests that Owain was under attack at this point; therefore the Defender and not the Perpetrator.
Amendment:
Amendment:
1403 (Summer) - Prince Henry V at this time set off from Shrewsbury with intent upon attacking, looting and burning Owain Glyndwr’s palaces of Sycharth and Glyndyfrdwy to the ground. Furthermore and this is ‘admitted'; he was unable to find Owain Glyndwr and took over 200 Prisoners whom were considered by the English to be unworthy of being ‘Ransomed’ as it was: ‘Too Generous for captured Welshmen’ and with that they were all Killed’; Henry V then marched into Meirionydd (Meirionethshire) quote: ‘And there we lay waste a fair land with that being well inhabited’ it is estimated that well over 6,500 men, women and children were killed during this ‘Attack’ within which Henry expressed himself as an Englishman for whom and what they are as a Nation and a Race; none were spared the extent of English brutality and atrocity. Sometime after 1417 Henry V had the places of Sycharth and Glyndyfrdwy removed stone by stone so as to remove from history any evidence of Owain Glyndwr.
1403 (Autumn) – The castles of Llanstephan, Dryslwyn, Newcastle Emlyn and Carreg Cennen fell to Owens men as a result of Welsh sympathizers among their garrisons.
Henry Don of Kidwelly was now being supported by ‘freebooters’ from Britany who attacked
In addition to the above I have also updated the 'Paw-Lew.co.uk' (Click on the small Paw-Lew icon) also the 'Paw-Lew.com' websites (Click on Owains Shield) and I recommend you inspect the sections relating to Owain if you are interested; they can be read on site with or without having to download them you simply need .Flash and/or to activate active X.
To read 'The House of Mathrafal' please follow this link: A or B these have not been updated on site yet however I will do so shortly.
