The Welsh kings and queens who ruled prior to the Norman Conquest
of Wales are shrouded in mystery. Most of what we know is from
legend, names in annals, and from their opponents. This book sets
out to identify what we know or can reasonably surmise about these
rulers, to disentangle their history, and to assess their
achievements. The Welsh ruled over large areas of Britain in the
pre- and post- Roman eras, before they were pushed back into Wales
itself by the Anglo-Saxons. Caratacus and Boudicca are names that
stand out from early tribal states, and medieval Welsh legends
refer to shadowy 'High Kings' who ruled after the Romans left -
Vortigern, Ambrosius, and, of course, the enigmatic 'Arthur'.
Venning explores these mysterious figures before discussing the
kings and queens of each area of what we now know as Wales - the
north, the centre and south-west, and the south-east - as well as
the short-lived Welsh states in the rest of Britain. The
thirteenth-century unifiers of Wales, Llywelyn 'Fawr' and his
grandson Llywelyn 'the Last', were contemporaries of great
nation-builders in England, Scotland, and France, but their
political achievements did not last. The precarious Welsh state was
permanently overrun by the English war machine.
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