Qualla: Battle of Cadfan https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadfan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Cadfan https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadfan Battle of Cadfan: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadfan/ The Welsh word cadfan simply means "place of battle" - a name given after the fact by people who needed something to call the ground they had just turned red. The English army that landed near Carmarthen on Tuesday 29 May 1257 did not yet know that name, or that they were about to give it one. They were marching to bully Dinefwr Castle into submission, to back the claim of an exiled Welsh lord named Rhys Fychan, and to slow the rising power of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Gwynedd. They had English knights, Gascon mercenaries, and south Welsh soldiers in the column. They had a confident young earl, the future Edward I, holding the strategic purse. What they did not have was a guide they could trust, or terrain they could fight on.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/p/battle-of-cadfan-wp/gcjp-battle-of-cadfan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Cadfan: The Quarrel That Brought Them https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadfan/ Llywelyn ap Gruffudd had been winning the long internal contest of thirteenth-century Wales for several years. Lords from Deheubarth, the southern Welsh kingdom - particularly Maredudd ap Rhys and Maredudd ap Owain - had sided with him. As a reward, Llywelyn had stripped lands fr...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/p/battle-of-cadfan-wp/gcjp-battle-of-cadfan-the-quarrel-that-brought-them.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Cadfan: Friday Night Outside Llandeilo https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadfan/ The English column moved up the Towy valley from Carmarthen, pillaging Welsh settlements as it went and aiming for Dinefwr. By Friday night the army was camped near Llandeilo Fawr. What they did not know was that two Welsh armies under the Marededdau - Maredudd ap Rhys and Maredu...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/p/battle-of-cadfan-wp/gcjp-battle-of-cadfan-friday-night-outside-llandeilo.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Cadfan: Saturday at Coed Llathen https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadfan/ On Saturday morning, lacking a guide, the English decided to retreat to Carmarthen. From the first hour of light until midday the Welsh shot at them out of the woods - bows, javelins, the kind of guerrilla pressure that does not destroy an army on its own but exhausts it utterly....

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/p/battle-of-cadfan-wp/gcjp-battle-of-cadfan-saturday-at-coed-llathen.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Cadfan: The Marsh at Cymerau https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadfan/ The retreating column moved westward, and the country shifted with it. At Cymerau the ground turned wet and marshy, cut by ravines and choked with woodland. It was perfect Welsh country and impossible English country - knights on heavy horses cannot manoeuvre through bog, and a c...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/p/battle-of-cadfan-wp/gcjp-battle-of-cadfan-the-marsh-at-cymerau.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Cadfan: After Cadfan https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadfan/ The victory at Cadfan let the Welsh take three English castles in quick succession - Laugharne, Llansteffan, and Narberth. Rhys Fychan hastily reconciled with Llywelyn and got his lands back. The Marededdau, having lost the new lands they had been given for backing Llywelyn, swit...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/p/battle-of-cadfan-wp/gcjp-battle-of-cadfan-after-cadfan.mp3 0:06 6 full Battle of Cadfan: Walking the Ground https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadfan/ The exact location of Coed Llathen and Cymerau is debated; the standard guesses place them in the woods and low ground between Llandeilo and Carmarthen, somewhere on the south side of the Tywi valley between modern Llandeilo and the village of Pontargothi. From the air today ther...

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