Monday 1 May 2023

RHYS ap GRUFFYDD PRINCE OF DYFED - LAST PRINCE OF THE WELSH - EXECUTED 1531.

  1. The coat of arms of Rhys's family Rhys ap Gruffydd (1508–December 1531) was a powerful Welsh landowner who was accused of rebelling against King Henry VIII by plotting with James V of Scotland to become Prince of Wales. He was executed as a rebel.

  2. "The recognition by Welsh rulers that the king of England had claims upon them would be a central fact in the subsequent

  3. political history of Wales," according to Davies. In about 904, Dyfed's ruler,


OUR HISTORY NEEDS TO BE REWRITTEN NOT TO SUIT 'Y CRACHACH NEWYDD' BUT MORE TRUTHFULLY AS A SMALL EXAMPLE 'TUDOR TAFFS' WRITE UP AN HISTORY TO SUIT PACIFIST 'CRACHLETS' NOT OF 'Y WERIN'.

https://gwerinowain.blogspot.com/2011/07/welsh-outlaw-and-forests-of-wales-also.html

APART FROM THE DISCONTENT OF WELSH LORDS AS RHYS  ap GRUFFYDD THERE WERE HUGE NUMBERS OF BANDITS - 'Y GWERIN OWAIN' BUT THEY ARE RECORDED AS MERE OUTLAWS HUNTED DOWN BY ROWLAND LEE THE 'HANGING JUDGE. IN REALITY THEY WERE THE SEEDS OF A POPULAR REVOLT.

  1. Jan 28, 2019 · Rowland Lee - The Hanging Judge who boasted he executed 5000 Welshmen Rowland Lee was born in 1487, two years after the Battle of Bosworth. Originally from Northumberland, he was educated at Cambridge, ordained as a priest and secured the patronage of Cardinal Wolsey.