Owain Glyndŵr

Prince of Wales

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Lived 1354–1415, aged 61United Kingdom

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1354–1415
Aged 61

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Updated 2026-06-11

He nearly pulled it off: a Welsh nobleman who sparked a national revolt in 1400, seized control of the entire country by 1404, held his own parliament with foreign envoys in attendance, and then vanished into the hills when the English pushed back — never captured, never pardoned, his fate still unknown.

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Owain ap Gruffudd Fychan, a Welsh soldier and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy, turned a property dispute with his English neighbour Reginald de Grey into a full-scale war for independence. Acclaimed Prince of Wales on 16 September 1400, he led a sixteen-year revolt that united Welsh commoners and nobles against English rule. Discriminatory penal laws meant to crush the uprising only widened his support. By 1404, after successful sieges and battlefield victories, he controlled most of Wales and convened a parliament at Machynlleth with envoys from France, Scotland, Castille, and Leon. In the Pennal Letter…

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