Following the Welsh victory at Lluchryd in 1136, Owain Gwynedd and Cadwaladr of Gwynedd swept into Ceredigion and recaptured the castles that the Normans had planted during the first wave of conquest. The rapid Welsh reconquest of Ceredigion was made possible by the weakness of Stephen's government during the Anarchy and demonstrated how fragile the Norman hold on mid-Wales had been. By the end of 1136 the Normans had been driven from most of the territory they had gained in the 1090s.
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