Llywelyn the Great captured Builth Castle from the powerful de Braose family in 1208 as part of his systematic expansion of Gwynedd power into the middle March. The de Braose lords had been the dominant Marcher power in Breconshire for generations. Llywelyn's relationship with the de Braose family later became complicated when he hanged William de Braose for adultery with his wife Joan in 1230 — one of the most dramatic personal episodes of the period.
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