Qualla: Battle of Ewloe https://qualla.com/battle-of-ewloe en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Ewloe https://qualla.com/battle-of-ewloe Battle of Ewloe: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-ewloe/ The standard fell. That was the moment everyone remembered afterwards - the royal banner of Henry II, the new young king of England, slipping from the hands of Henry of Essex in a Flintshire wood as Welsh warriors drove down through the trees. To anyone watching, it looked as if the king had fallen with it. Some of his men turned and fled. Some of his men, believing him dead, may have spread the word back to the main column. Henry was alive, but only barely, and only because Roger, Earl of Hertford, snatched up the banner and held the line. Two years into his reign, in July 1157, the king of England had walked into a Welsh ambush in the woods of Hawarden and learned a hard lesson about the country he had inherited.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/y/battle-of-ewloe-wp/gcmy-battle-of-ewloe-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Ewloe: The New King's Problem https://qualla.com/battle-of-ewloe/ Henry II had taken the English throne in 1154, ending two decades of civil war and inheriting an empire that ran from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. He was twenty-four, intelligent, restless, and impatient with anyone who had taken advantage of the chaos of his predecessor'...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/y/battle-of-ewloe-wp/gcmy-battle-of-ewloe-the-new-kings-problem.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Ewloe: The Ambush in Hawarden Wood https://qualla.com/battle-of-ewloe/ Owain knew Henry was coming and chose his ground carefully. He fortified a position near Coleshill, probably somewhere on the high ground between Basingwerk and Hen Blas, and waited. Henry sent the bulk of his army straight at the Welsh line, but took a lighter flanking force him...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/y/battle-of-ewloe-wp/gcmy-battle-of-ewloe-the-ambush-in-hawarden-wood.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Ewloe: The Standard That Fell https://qualla.com/battle-of-ewloe/ Henry of Essex, the king's hereditary standard-bearer, dropped the royal banner. Whether from terror, from a stumble, from a Welsh spear, the chroniclers disagreed. He himself later claimed - according to the testimony of the chronicler Jocelyn de Brakelond - that he had genuinel...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/y/battle-of-ewloe-wp/gcmy-battle-of-ewloe-the-standard-that-fell.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Ewloe: What Owain Won https://qualla.com/battle-of-ewloe/ Henry marched on to Rhuddlan and there received news that his second blow had also fallen short. A naval expedition under his half-uncle Henry FitzRoy, the illegitimate son of Henry I, had landed at Anglesey and been driven into the sea by local defenders. FitzRoy himself was kil...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/y/battle-of-ewloe-wp/gcmy-battle-of-ewloe-what-owain-won.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Ewloe: The Quiet Battlefield https://qualla.com/battle-of-ewloe/ Modern Ewloe is a quiet Flintshire village west of the Dee, just inside the Welsh border. The exact site of the battle has been debated for centuries; D.J. Cathcart King and Sean Davies argue for somewhere near Basingwerk Abbey, John Edwards for Hen Blas further east. A commemora...

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