During the Welsh revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294-95, Edward I found himself besieged in his own new castle at Conwy — the irony of the Conqueror trapped by the conquered. The fleet supplied him by sea while the revolt raged. His eventual emergence and crushing of Madog at Maes Moydog was the definitive end of Welsh independence.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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