The Normans of Abergavenny and the Welsh of Gwent were locked in permanent enmity. In 1175, Seisyll ap Dyfnwal led a Welsh raid on the area. Shortly after, the Norman lord William de Braose invited Seisyll and other Welsh nobles to a feast and massacred them — an act of treachery long remembered in Wales. De Braose's men then murdered Seisyll's infant son and kidnapped his wife. "Beware of Abergavenny" became a Welsh proverb.
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