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A huge stone port a mile off Cardiff…built by the ancient kings of Britain….?

Oct 29, 2019

archaeology, buildings, sources

Arthur, Cardiff Bay Tidal Lagoon, Gerald of Wales, Goldcliff, maps, Nennius, Newport, offshore ports, River Severn, Stone Age, Usk, Wales

This post has nothing to do with Richard III, but concerns a great structure which, if it ever existed, would surely have been visible to him from the shore of South Wales. The intervening centuries have worn it down, of course, but he might—just might—have seen it. We are becoming accustomed to important ancient discoveries…
The Welsh Rebellion that Henry VII Lost to Richard III

May 20, 2015

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Brecon rebellion, Catherine Woodville, Earl of Oxford, Edward of Buckingham, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, Jasper “Tudor”, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Beaufort, Michael K Jones, Newport, Richard III, tenants, Wales

While reading Michael K. Jones’ dry, if detailed, study of the life of Margaret Beaufort[1], I was amazed to learn about a small but significant Welsh rebellion conducted against Henry VII and his hagiographic mummy that I’ve never heard mentioned anywhere else. It appears that Henry and Margaret were thwarted on at least one occasion,…