Qualla: Battle of Tuthill https://qualla.com/battle-of-tuthill 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/k/y/battle-of-tuthill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Tuthill https://qualla.com/battle-of-tuthill Battle of Tuthill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-tuthill/ Photo credit John Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0. Owain Glyndwr had been at war for just over a year when he marched on Caernarfon. The summer before, at Mynydd Hyddgen high in the Cambrian Mountains, his small band had routed an English force and turned a regional grievance into a national rising. On 2 November 1401 - the morrow of All Saints, with hard frost coming in off the Menai Strait - he stood in front of the most intimidating castle Edward I ever built in Wales, raised a banner of a golden dragon on a white field, and ordered the assault.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/battle-of-tuthill-wp/gcky-battle-of-tuthill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Tuthill: A Banner from Legend https://qualla.com/battle-of-tuthill/ Photo credit John Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0. The dragon was not the red wyvern that would later become Wales's flag. It was Uther Pendragon's standard, lifted from the legendary chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Nennius. Glyndwr was a literate man steeped in the old British histories, and at this stage of his revolt he...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/battle-of-tuthill-wp/gcky-battle-of-tuthill-a-banner-from-legend.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Tuthill: The Walls Held https://qualla.com/battle-of-tuthill/ Photo credit John Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0. Almost nothing of the battle itself survives in writing. The only contemporary account comes from Adam of Usk, a Welsh-born cleric travelling through troubled times, who summarised the day in a single brisk Latin sentence. Glyndwr intended to lay siege to Caernarvon. He raised hi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/battle-of-tuthill-wp/gcky-battle-of-tuthill-the-walls-held.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Tuthill: Why It Mattered Anyway https://qualla.com/battle-of-tuthill/ Photo credit John Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0. By the cold arithmetic of battle, Tuthill was a defeat. By the longer arithmetic of revolt, it was something else. The very fact that Glyndwr could march openly on the largest royal castle in north Wales, in broad daylight on a feast day, showed that the rebellion had teeth. Edwa...

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