Dafydd ap Gruffudd, last Prince of Wales before conquest, attacks the newly begun English castle at Caernarfon in 1283 while construction is underway. English forces retaliate and hunt Dafydd through Snowdonia. He is captured in June 1283, tried for treason, and executed at Shrewsbury — the first person executed in England by hanging drawing and quartering.
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