Edward I's Conquest of Wales

by Sean Davies

Overview

A study of medieval warfare and a formative event in the history of Britain.
 
Edward I’s conquest of Wales has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over a century. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key characters involved in the conquest. That is why Sean Davies’s absorbing new study is so timely and important.
 
Taking a balanced approach, he gives both the Welsh and English perspectives on the war and on the brutal, mistrustful, and ruthless personal motives that drove events. His account is set in the context of Welsh warfare and society from the end of Rome to the time of Edward’s opening campaign in the late thirteenth century. The narrative describes in vivid detail the military history of the conflict; the sequence of campaigns; Welsh resistance; Edward’s castle building and English colonization; the cost of the struggle to the Welsh and the English; and the uneasy peace that followed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473861688
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	02/20/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
Sales rank:	944,791
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Dr Sean Davies has studied medieval warfare and the history of Wales for over twenty years, his research earning him a degree, Masters and PhD from the University of Wales. He has published extensively on the subjects, his books including War and Society in Medieval Wales and The Last King of Wales. Sean was born and bred in the valleys of south Wales and lived in Swansea and the borderlands of mid Wales before settling in Cardiff. He was a BBC journalist for over twelve years and now works as a writer and editor.

Table of Contents

List of Plates vii

Timeline ix

Map xi

1 The Red and the White Dragons 1

2 English and Welsh Military Institutions 13

3 The Rise of a Prince 45

4 The Young Panther 59

5 The Road to Montgomery 71

6 The Phoney War 85

7 1277: The War of Domination 99

8 Wales Under the Heel of Longshanks 115

9 1282-3: The War of Conquest 127

10 Castles, Colonisation and Rule 153

11 Resistance and Submission 165

12 A United Kingdom? 181

Notes 185

Bibliography 199

Index 211