Robert of Rhuddlan built a new castle at Rhuddlan in the early 1070s as the base for his conquest of north Wales. Welsh attempts to dislodge the garrison were repulsed. Rhuddlan became one of the most fought-over positions in Welsh history, having been a royal centre since Roman times and a Welsh court before the Normans arrived. Edward I would later choose Rhuddlan as the seat for issuing the Statute of Wales 1284.
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