Welsh Lords

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Principality Of Wales - Prior To 1284: Under The House of Aberffraw - Aberffraw Princes - Llywelyn Ap Iorwerth 1195–1240
... to "seize as much as he could" from the native Welsh ... Succession was a complicated matter given that Welsh law recognized children born out of wedlock as equal to those in born in wedlock and sometimes accepted claims through the female line ... Many of Llywelyn's Welsh allies had abandoned him during England's invasion of Gwynedd, preferring an overlord far away rather than one nearby ...
History Of Gwynedd During The High Middle Ages - History - 13th Century - Llywelyn, John, and The Magna Carta; 1200-1216
... Main article Llywelyn ab Iorwerth See also Welsh uprising of 1211 In 1200 Llywelyn ab Iorwerth recovered upper Gwynedd on the death of his cousin Gruffydd ap Cynan, with Gruffydd's son Hywel ... ab Owain of upper Powys, who had filled the power vacuum left with the death of the Lord Rhys, Prince of Deheubarth, in 1197 and with Gwynedd divided over ... had given William de Breos license in 1200 to "seize as much as he could" from the native Welsh, particularly from Powys ...

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