Wednesday 28 December 2011

TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF LLWCHWR 1136 AND TO FORGET THE 'STRUGGLE FOR STRYVELAND' 1282 - 1334, THEN FORGET TO CONTINUE THAT STRUGGLE ON MYNYDD Y BETWS WOULD BE A SEVERE CASE OF PATRIOTIC AMNESIA OR MAY BE JUST MORE WELSH NATIONALIST HYPOCRACY OR CONTEMPORARY CRACHACH COWARDICE IN FAILING TO LEAD THE WAY FOWARD INTO A FIGHT WITH THE WINDMILL MASTER ROBBER BARONS WHO HAVE TAKEN OUR LAND?




As  for why just read the below and endevour to link the history and note the follow

- ing facts young Chief Gruffydd and his wife Gwenllian upon initiating revolt 

against the Anglo  - Normans were called 'Imbiciles' by the 'Crachach 

Collaborators' of those  times because it spoilt a good thing for they 

(sound familier).


Gruffydd ap Rhys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruffydd_ap_Rhys
After a brief courtship the couple eloped, with Gwenllian joining Gruffydd ap Rhys on his military campaigns. After several years Gruffydd was able to raise .


Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd (Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffydd) (c. 1097–1136) was Princess-consort of Deheubarth in Wales, and married to Gruffydd ap Rhys, ...

 

The pair of Outlaw Rebels  for a  while hid out in Cwmwd Caeo before embarking on the great revolt post  1136:


Caeo (cwmwd) - Wicipedia

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Gorweddai cwmwd Caeo yng nghanol y Cantref Mawr, ar ran uchaf cwrs Afon Cothi. Ffiniai â chymydau Mallaen, Maenor Deilo, Catheiniog a Mabelfyw yn y ...

Some  400 years later when the Tudors embarked on enclosures of land to hand

 over to their Gentry Followers, the peasantry of Cwmwd Caeo would rise  up in a

 revolt with a call that has echoed throughout our  history.


 'TRECH GWLAD NAG ARGWLYDD'



The Tudors Would also hand over the land that had been fought over by the Native Welsh for Mynydd y Betws, a struggle they had waged for many years between 1282 and 1334. After a long struggle they had won back the Mountain in what became known as the Struggle for 'Stryveland'. 

I'R GAD: Welsh Medieval Battlefields Campaign.

brwydr.blogspot.com/
1 Dec 2011 – I'R GAD: Welsh Medieval Battlefields Campaign. Objectives are to seek official recognition and registration of Welsh Medieval Battlefields. ...

However in the 16th century the Tudors would seize this land and handed it to their English Followers as the Deveraux and Buefort Families, it was in such way what was left of 'Free Welsh Land' much of it unwanted commons fell into the hands of the English Robber Barons of the Colonial Government of the Council of Wales and the Marches. Be it also noted that when Rhys ap Thomas of Dinefwr had died in 1525 aged 76, King Henry VIII awarded most of his titles and powers, not to Rhys's heir, his 17 year old grandson Rhys ap Gruffydd (whose father had died in 1521), but to the Englishman Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers - and had awarded them for life, at that. Rhys was later to be accused of Rebellion and for this executed at Tower of London in 1531.

Welsh Remembrancer.: THE LAST PRINCE OF WALES: Rhys ap Gruffydd of ...

welshremembrancer.blogspot.com/.../last-prince-of-wales-rhys-ap-gr...
1 Dec 2008 – Rhys ap Gruffydd was buried in St Olave's Church, Heart Street (Fenchurch Street) but I have found no grave site there, my researches ...

Walter Devereux ( earl of Essex ) - The National Library of Wales ...

yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-DEVE-REU-1100.html
WALTER DEVEREUX ( c. 1491 - 1559 ), 1st viscount Hereford , was the eldest son of John , lord Ferrers , to whose title he succeeded in 1501 , adding to it in ...


Somerset - The National Library of Wales :: Dictionary of Welsh ...

yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-SOME-RAG-1450.html
CHARLES SOMERSET ( 1460? - 1526 ), 1st Somerset earl of Worcester , was the illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort , 3rd duke of Somerset , beheaded by the ...

Rather ironically Oliver Cromwell would reseize this land from the English Gentry and hand it to his native Welsh Republican followers although on return of the Monarchy it would be handed back to English Aristocrats. It has remained much of this way to the present day upon Mynydd y Gwair where the Duke of Somerset rules the roost and his to make a fortune out of the windmilling of that mountain. 

CAMPAIGNS CYMRU: TRECH GWLAD NAG ARGLWYDD: THE ...

ymgyrch.blogspot.com/.../trech-gwlad-nag-arglwydd-beaufort.html
9 Jul 2011 – TRECH GWLAD NAG ARGLWYDD: THE BEAUFORT LEGACY - THE MENACE OF MYNYDD y GWAIR IS BACK WITH A VENGENCE - IT ...

However, close by Mynydd y Betws appears to have over time been taken possession of by Welsh Home steaders and Native Commoners to recent times. Then along comes a new age of Robber Barons - the Windmill Masters and here's the Irony, that of Carmarthen Council inclosing much of the commons there to hand to the Robber Baron Windmill Masters which further ironically is in cahoots with an Irish Utility company backed by the Irish Government. I wonder how many Plaid Cymru Coucillors opposed this, be interesting to find out, yes! See previous Posts in this blog also see the following post:

RHUO'R DDRAIG

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17 Dec 2011 – RHUO'R DDRAIG. PLATFORM FOR PROMOTION OF A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND WELSH LAND AND RESOURCES FROM ...

So the question begs to be asked what are contemporary patriots going to do about this, forget or fight back as their ancestors have done on numerous occaisions? It has come to my attention that again Eginiog Patriots will annually Commemorate at the Battle of Llwchwr, I suggest that following this event they make their way to Mynydd y Gwair/Mynydd y Betws to be reminded of this landscape and the coming campaign there in a second struggle of 'Stryveland', maybe? Perhaps Patriots chose amnesia and nationalist hypocracy over remembrance and resurgence in Revolt as that that followed the Battle of Llwchwr 1136 but of course not in such a violent insurrectionary way but a great Welsh Revolt all the same maybe? 






The Battle of Llwchwr 1 Ionawr 1136. - I'R GAD

brwydr.blogspot.com/2007/05/battle-of-llwchwr-1-ionawr-1136.html
3 May 2007 – The Battle of Llwchwr, new years day 1136: The Normans of Southern Gwyr had been informed of an on coming Welsh Attack, and realised ...

But the Battle is not over, yet?


I'R GAD: Welsh Medieval Battlefields Campaign.

brwydr.blogspot.com/
1 Dec 2011 – I'R GAD: Welsh Medieval Battlefields Campaign. Objectives are to seek official .... Battle of Llwchwr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...

For Nationalists to Commemorate the above and not then continue the struggle on Betws Mountain, just shows how gutless Welsh Nationalists might be these days? This note is a responsibility of Pobl Eginiog to lead the way, so lead the fight back, yesThus on 1 Ionawr 2012, I suggest Pobl Eginiog rise up the Baners of Revolt upon the foundations of Penller Gaer the walls of which the Welsh Destroyed as they restored their frontier by 1334. In case your not sure of where to go and what to see, maps below will be of assistance to finding your way and in organising the June March into the Mountains also future Mountains Campaigning 2012 - 2013 - 2014. 


Rhyndwyclydach

www.a-glamorgan-family.com/Rhyndwyclydach.html
The remaining 2348 acres is accounted for by the common land of Mynydd ... The Duke of Beaufort K.G. is lord of the manor; the principal landowners are H. N. .... St. Illtyd's Way, across Mynydd y Gwair (Baran mountain) and Mynydd y Betws. ...

Compare with maps in this blog as to location of the two vast Windmill Plantations on Mynydd y Betws and Mynydd y Gwair.



Thence in organising the needed constant campaiging to defeat the Robber Baron - Windmill Master and retake our Common Land upon the Mountain as Native Americans have done at Winter Dam and Grand River in Canada also of late the Mapuche from Statkraft in Chile Patagonia.

TARIAN GLYNDŴR: INFORMATION: STATKRAFT CYMRU and ...

tarianglyndwr.blogspot.com/.../statkrft-cymru-statkraft-chile-cymru.h...
6 Sep 2011 – Homeland Defence - Fighting English Imperialism and Colonialism since 1400. Mudiad Tarian Glyndŵr campaigns against oppression of our ...

COFIWCH!




I am not sure which Army Camp is being written about here, I guess Epynt and if so that was another Welsh Defeat as Tryweryn was. However, there is a land campaign which was won, that was in connection with British Army seeking to take over Preseli Mountains. Here they were successfully resisted by local people led by the Rev Joseph James whom his recognised today in a memorial at Maenclochog Green bearing a line by the Poet Waldo Williams;

 'He kept the Preslau from the Beast'. 

The lesson fight hard! So pobl Eginiog  to the fight? Again all noting that it is 
not my intention to set out to organise the suggested June National Marches
 into the Mountains no this example for Mynydd y Betws that is for the
 concerned community to set out to do as will I hope other communities.
 I am committed myself to a week of campaigning camping in the Plumlumon
 Mountains  as part of a proposed Fortress Glyndwr, if it be at all possible I
 will following 'Fortress Glyndwr' attend the Mynydd y Betws Campaign 
Weekend, if organised? Sad as it sounds but it appears to be true that
 Nationalists are more up for commemorating than campaigning in these
times, but we shall see but I suggest that many of those attending the 
Battle of Llwchwr Commemoration take a short trip to Mynydd y Betws 
following that event to consider your actions ahead. 



Research In Passing.

The English in the twelfth century: imperialism, national ... - Google Books Result

books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0851157327...John Gillingham - 2000 - History - 289 pages
But is this how it was seen in 1136 and 1137? In 1136 and 1137 the ... tide for Section II of Chapter XIII (The National Revival') of his History of Wales. ...

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The Making of English National Identity

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