Qualla: Battle of Orewin Bridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-orewin-bridge en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/8/battle-of-orewin-bridge-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Orewin Bridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-orewin-bridge Battle of Orewin Bridge: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-orewin-bridge/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Rhion assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. On the morning of 11 December 1282, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, sovereign Prince of Wales, rode away from his army. He had perhaps eighteen men with him, some of them clergy. The Welsh host he had left behind, around seven thousand spearmen and a hundred and sixty cavalry, was drawn up on a hillside north of the Irfon River near a village called Cilmeri, watching for an English attack from the south across Orewin Bridge. Llywelyn had been promised a meeting with the Marcher lords. He had been told they would offer their homage. The promise was a trap. By dusk he was dead, run down in a wood at Aberedw, struck through with a lance by a man who did not know who he was. His head was carried to London. Wales, after eight hundred years as a network of independent kingdoms and seven generations of struggle, no longer had a prince of its own.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/8/battle-of-orewin-bridge-wp/gcm8-battle-of-orewin-bridge-promise-of-homage.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Orewin Bridge: A Wood at Aberedw https://qualla.com/battle-of-orewin-bridge/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Rhion assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. The more credible of the two surviving accounts - written by monks in eastern England who had contact with Llywelyn's exiled daughter Gwenllian - describes what followed. The Welsh army was engaged in fierce battle and a section of it routed. Llywelyn and his small group of retai...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/8/battle-of-orewin-bridge-wp/gcm8-battle-of-orewin-bridge-a-wood-at-aberedw.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Orewin Bridge: The Head on the Tower https://qualla.com/battle-of-orewin-bridge/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Rhion assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Llywelyn's head was carried to Edward I and then to London. It was crowned with ivy, in mockery of an old Welsh prophecy that said a Welsh king would one day be crowned in London. The head was displayed on a stake at the Tower of London for the next fifteen years, a deliberate pi...

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