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Norman invasion of Wales, the Glossary

The Norman invasion of Wales began shortly after the Norman conquest of England under William the Conqueror, who believed England to be his birthright.^[1]

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Anglesey

Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales.

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Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland

The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland took place during the late 12th century, when Anglo-Normans gradually conquered and acquired large swathes of land from the Irish, over which the kings of England then claimed sovereignty, all allegedly sanctioned by the papal bull Laudabiliter. Norman invasion of Wales and Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland are 12th-century conflicts.

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Battle of Crug Mawr

The Battle of Crug Mawr (Brwydr Crug Mawr), sometimes referred to as the Battle of Cardigan, took place in September or October 1136, as part of a struggle between the Welsh and Normans for control of Ceredigion, West Wales.

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Battle of Ewloe

The Battle of Ewloe (also known as the Battle of Coleshill, or Counsylth, or Coleshille, or Cennadlog) was fought in July 1157 between the army of Henry II of England and an army led by the Welsh prince Owain Gwynedd.

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Battle of Hastings

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

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Caerleon

Caerleon (Caerllion) is a town and community in Newport, Wales.

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Cardigan, Ceredigion

Cardigan (Aberteifi) is a town and community in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.

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Chepstow Castle

Chepstow Castle (Castell Cas-gwent) at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales is the oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification in Britain.

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Chester

Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border.

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Conquest of Wales by Edward I

The conquest of Wales by Edward I took place between 1277 and 1283. Norman invasion of Wales and conquest of Wales by Edward I are England–Wales relations, invasions of Wales and wars involving Wales.

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Deheubarth

Deheubarth (thus 'the South') was a regional name for the realms of south Wales, particularly as opposed to Gwynedd (Latin: Venedotia).

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Earl

Earl is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom.

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Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor (1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut.

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Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda (10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Gruffudd ap Cynan

Gruffudd ap Cynan (–1137) was King of Gwynedd from 1081 until his death in 1137.

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Gruffydd ap Llywelyn

Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (– 5 August 1063) was King of Gwynedd and Powys from 1039 and, after asserting his control over the entire country, claimed the title King of Wales from 1055 until his death in 1063.

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Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in the north-west of Wales.

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Harold Godwinson

Harold Godwinson (– 14 October 1066), also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king.

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Henry I of England

Henry I (– 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135.

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Henry II of England

Henry II, also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189.

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Heptarchy

The Heptarchy were the seven petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England that flourished from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century until they were consolidated in the 8th century into the four kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England.

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Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester

Hugh d'Avranches (1047 – 27 July 1101), nicknamed le Gros (the Large) or Lupus (the Wolf), was from 1071 the second Norman Earl of Chester and one of the great magnates of early Norman England.

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Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury

Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (died 1098), was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat and member of the House of Bellême.

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Kingdom of Gwent

Gwent (Guent) was a medieval Welsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk.

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Magnus III Olafsson (Old Norse: Magnús Óláfsson, Norwegian: Magnus Olavsson; 1073 – 24 August 1103), better known as Magnus Barefoot (Old Norse: Magnús berfœttr, Norwegian: Magnus Berrføtt), was the King of Norway from 1093 until his death in 1103.

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Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror. Norman invasion of Wales and Norman Conquest are 11th century in England.

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Owain Gwynedd

Owain ap Gruffudd (– 23 or 28 November 1170) was King of Gwynedd, North Wales, from 1137 until his death in 1170, succeeding his father Gruffudd ap Cynan.

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Puffin Island (Anglesey)

Puffin Island (Ynys Seiriol) is an uninhabited island off the eastern tip of Anglesey, Wales.

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Rhys ap Gruffydd

Rhys ap Gruffydd or ap Gruffudd (often anglicised to "Griffith"; c. 1132 – 28 April 1197) was the ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth in south Wales from 1155 to 1197.

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River Wye

The River Wye (Afon Gwy) is the fourth-longest river in the UK, stretching some from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn Estuary.

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Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford

Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford (1056 – after 1087), succeeded in 1071 to the earldom of Hereford and the English estate of his father, William Fitz-Osbern.

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Roger de Montgomery

Roger de Montgomery (died 1094), also known as Roger the Great, was the first Earl of Shrewsbury, and Earl of Arundel, in Sussex.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Shrewsbury

("May Shrewsbury Flourish") --> Shrewsbury is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Shropshire, England.

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Stephen, King of England

Stephen (1092 or 1096 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154.

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Striguil

Striguil or Strigoil is the name that was used from the 11th century until the late 14th century for the port and Norman castle of Chepstow, on the Welsh side of the River Wye which forms the boundary with England. Norman invasion of Wales and Striguil are medieval history of Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_invasion_of_Wales

Also known as Anglo-Norman invasion of Wales, Norman conquest of Wales.

Norman invasion of Wales, the Glossary

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See also

11th century in England

11th century in Wales

11th-century conflicts

12th century in England

12th century in Wales

12th-century conflicts

England–Wales relations

Invasions by the Normans

Invasions of Wales

Wars involving Wales

References