Within a year, the Normans were building a castle at Chepstow and had begun their piecemeal conquest of Wales, a process which took well over 200 years. The conquest started with a series of ...

In his Description Of Wales (1193), he devoted a chapter to the ways in which the English king may achieve the total conquest of Wales. In another, he tells the Welsh how they should set about ...

The Conquest of Wales was a traumatic event. When Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was killed in 1282 in a skirmish with the Anglo-Norman army at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, one chronicler wrote that the ...