...In the first of his letters criticizing cyfraith Hywel, written as a result of a dispute between Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Bishop Anian of Bangor in 1279, Archbishop John Pecham accused Llywelyn of having usurped ecclesiastical property and of disregarding the Catholic Church's...

...Edward I took a particular delight in appropriating the residences of the Gwynedd dynasty, thereby making clear to all the definitiveness and finality of his conquest. In August 1284, he set up his court in two of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's favourite residences, Abergwyngregyn and Caernarfon; he...

... experience. It focuses on English chroniclers’ inclusion of elegies to Welsh princes of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Rhys ap Gruffudd (d. 1197) and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (d. 1282). Written in Wales, these elegies, included in Latin chronicles from England and the Marches, such as Higden’s...

...Llywelyn ap Gruffudd had shown his talents at an early age. He had established himself in Dyffryn Clwyd and had attracted to his company some of the former advisers and officials of his grandfather, Llywelyn Fawr. Llywelyn ap Gruffudd may well have already set himself up as a claimant around whom...