Qualla: Battle of Moel-y-don https://qualla.com/battle-of-moel-y-don en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-moel-y-don-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Moel-y-don https://qualla.com/battle-of-moel-y-don Battle of Moel-y-don: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-moel-y-don/ Photo credit AJ Marshall, CC BY 4.0. The tide was coming in when the Welsh appeared on the heights. Below them, on the shingle and salt grass east of Anglesey, hundreds of English knights and men-at-arms were strung out along a beach they had reached by walking across the sea. Behind them stretched a bridge made of boats lashed together - Luke de Tany's pontoon, the most ambitious engineering feat of Edward I's Welsh war. In front of them, swarming down from the high ground above the Menai Strait, came Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's army. The tide rose. The boats lifted. The way back closed.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-moel-y-don-wp/gcmn-battle-of-moel-y-don-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Moel-y-don: The Bridge Across the Strait https://qualla.com/battle-of-moel-y-don/ Photo credit AJ Marshall, CC BY 4.0. By autumn 1282 Edward I had spent the better part of a year trying to crush Llywelyn the Last, the only Welsh prince still styling himself the prince of Wales. Edward's strategy was envelopment: armies on every front, castles springing up faster than the Welsh could besiege them,...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-moel-y-don-wp/gcmn-battle-of-moel-y-don-the-bridge-across-the-strait.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Moel-y-don: A Trap of Tide and Mountains https://qualla.com/battle-of-moel-y-don/ Photo credit AJ Marshall, CC BY 4.0. Tany believed he could finish Llywelyn alone. He had contacts in the clergy at Bangor - sympathisers who had promised to signal him when the moment was right. On 6 November the signal came. The English crossed at low water, marched inland from the strait's eastern shore, and walk...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-moel-y-don-wp/gcmn-battle-of-moel-y-don-a-trap-of-tide-and-mountains.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Moel-y-don: What the Sea Took https://qualla.com/battle-of-moel-y-don/ Photo credit AJ Marshall, CC BY 4.0. Sixteen English knights died at Moel-y-don, along with more than 400 of their men. The Chester chronicler preserved the roll of the dead, a list of names that reads like a roster of Edward's inner court: Roger de Clifford the Younger, the brothers Philip and William Burnell (kin ...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-moel-y-don-wp/gcmn-battle-of-moel-y-don-what-the-sea-took.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Moel-y-don: A Reprieve That Did Not Last https://qualla.com/battle-of-moel-y-don/ Photo credit AJ Marshall, CC BY 4.0. The disaster at Moel-y-don and the parallel slaughter at Llandeilo Fawr in south Wales bought Llywelyn a few weeks of breathing room. Edward, who rarely admitted setbacks, never spoke of his lost pontoon again. Otto de Grandson, the soaked survivor, recovered quickly enough to le...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-moel-y-don-wp/gcmn-battle-of-moel-y-don-a-reprieve-that-did-not-last.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Moel-y-don: Looking Down on the Strait https://qualla.com/battle-of-moel-y-don/ Photo credit AJ Marshall, CC BY 4.0. Today the strait is calm in most weathers, and the line where the boats once floated runs invisible beneath yachts and ferries shuttling toward Bangor pier. The actual ground where men drowned is uncertain - a strip of foreshore somewhere along the southern shore of Anglesey, los...

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