Shrewsbury Shropshire United Kingdom
Years: 1283 - 1283
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The town of Bristol itself proves too strong for him, and Stephen contents himself with raiding and pillaging the surrounding area.
The rebels appear to have expected Robert to intervene with support, but he remains in Normandy throughout the year, trying to persuade the Empress Matilda to invade England herself.
Dover finally surrenders to the Queen's forces later in the year.
Gwenwynwyn of Powys falls out with King John, who in October 1208 summons him to Shrewsbury, then arrests him and strips him of his lands; …
Llywelyn, having made an alliance with Philip of France, now allies himself with the barons who are in rebellion against John, marching on Shrewsbury in 1215 and capturing it without resistance.
Llywelyn ap Dafydd is captured on June 28, and Welsh resistance to the invasion temporarily comes to an end.
Edward on June 28, issued writs to summon a parliament to meet at Shrewsbury, to discuss Dafydd's fate.
Dafydd ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales, is on September 30 condemned to death, the first person known to have been tried and executed for what from this time onward will be described as high treason against the King.
Edward ensured that Dafydd's death was to be slow and agonizing, and also historic; Daffyds has the dubious distinction of being the first prominent person to be executed by drawing and quartering, preceded by a number of minor knights earlier in the thirteenth century.
The condemned man is attached to a horse's tail and dragged to the gallows, hanged by the neck briefly, revived and, while still alive, disemboweled (drawn).
His entrails are then burned before him and his body divided into four parts.
Dafydd's daughter Gwladys, like her cousin Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn, is sent to a convent in Lincolnshire—Gwenllian to Sempringham and Gwladys to Sixhills, where she will die in 1336.
Dafydd's sons are both imprisoned at Bristol Castle; Llywelyn ap Dafydd will die at Bristol Castle in mysterious circumstances in 1287 or 1288, while Owain ap Dafydd is last found living in August 1325.
Dafydd may have had another (illegitimate) son, Dafydd Goch, who survived.
One cadet member of the ruling House of Cunedda also survives, Madog ap Llywelyn, who in 1294-95 will lead a nationwide revolt.
Hostpur’s father, the elder Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, surrenders to the English crown.
Meanwhile, the arrow Henry had taken in battle has become lodged in his face.
An ordinary soldier would likely be left to die from such a wound, but Henry has the benefit of the best possible care, and, over a period of several days after the incident, the royal physician crafts a special tool to extract the tip of the arrow without doing further damage.
The operation is successful and leaves the prince with permanent scars which are to serve as a testimony to his experience in battle.
Hotspur is soon exhumed, by order of the King, when rumors circulate that he is still alive.
His body is first displayed in Shrewsbury, impaled on a spear, but is later cut up into four quarters and sent around all of England.
His head is stuck on a pole at York's gates.
Northumberland, pardoned by his peers, has by 1405 involved himself in a new conspiracy to dethrone Henry, whom he has never forgiven for Shrewsbury, and crown Edmund de Mortimer.
The king is alerted to the plot, however, and has Northumberland’s co-conspirators, the Earl of Nottingham and Richard Le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, beheaded.
Northumberland escapes to Scotland.
Owain remains free, but though his campaign has been successful, and the English armies fear both him and the French, he has lost his ancestral home and is a hunted prince.
Owain continues the rebellion, particularly wanting to avenge his wife.
Some of the leading rebellion figures, after a suicidal raid in 1410 into rebel-controlled Shropshire, which takes many English lives, are thought to have been captured.
...Shrewsbury, where large numbers of recruits from Wales and the Welsh border are expected to join him. (There is by this point conflict in almost every part of England, as local commanders attempt to seize the main cities, ports and castles for both factions).
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)
