Llywelyn fawr biography examples
Llywelyn fawr biography examples
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Llywelyn The Great - The Myth of Llywelyn Fawr
In the twelfth century Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (1172-1240), a grandson of Owain Gwynedd (d.1170), was a most unimportant prince and no one could have foreseen what a great future lay in store for him in the first decade of the thirteenth century. It is therefore worth propounding that he was never referred to by contemporaries as Llywelyn Fawr - Llywelyn the Great. Indeed there appears to be no mention of him under such a name during the Middle Ages. In consequence it seems that this name is a relatively modern conceit that distorts history.
Research into the subject suggests that Llywelyn's well known epithet is based solely upon the singular evidence that a document of Edward I (1272-1307) is said to have once referred to him as Lewelini Magni - or Llywelyn the Great. However, it should immediately be noted that the common Latin word magnus has a wide variety of meanings and so could have meant, l