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Owain Glyn Dwr

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Dec 14, 2016

religion

anniversaries, de heretico comburendo, escapes, executions, French Civil Wars, Henry IV, Henry V, High Sheriffs, Lancastrians, Lollards, Owain Glyn Dwr, rebels, Savaronola, Sir John Oldcastle, Tower of London

Today in 1417, Sir John Olcastle was hanged and burned at Smithfield , as a leading Lollard and political rebel who had previously escaped from the Tower. He had been a High Sheriff of Herefordshire, an MP and a soldier under the Prince of Wales in Wales and France, all in Henry IV’s reign. One…
A Welsh family for St. Crispin’s Day

Oct 25, 2015

genealogy

anniversaries, Azincourt, Battle of Bosworth, Dafydd Gam, Edgecote Moor, Elizabeth of York, Gwent, Henry V, Henry VII, Katherine Plantagenet, Mortimer’s Cross, Owain Glyn Dwr, Raglan Castle, Richard Herbert, Richard III, Towton, Wales, William ap Thomas, William Herbert Earl of Pembroke

We start with Dafydd Gam (c.1380-1415), who fought against the Glyn Dwr rebellion at the beginning of the fifteenth century, apparently trying to assassinate the leading rebel and being imprisoned by him. He may have saved Henry V’s life at Azincourt but was definitely killed there. His daughter, Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, married twice and…