On Good Friday 1401, Gwilym and Rhys ap Tudor — cousins of Owain Glyndŵr, disguised as carpenters — surprised and captured Conwy Castle while most of the garrison was at church. Henry "Hotspur" Percy and then Prince Henry besieged it for months without success. The Tudors finally surrendered in June in exchange for pardons, but nine of their men were betrayed and executed. The seizure of Edward I's most imposing Welsh castle was a sensational propaganda coup for the rebellion.
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