15th century in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 14th century | 16th century | Other years in Wales Other events of the century This article is about the particular significance of the century 1401–1500 to Wales and its people. Events 1401 1 April (Good Friday) - Conwy Castle is taken by supporters of Owain Glyndŵr.Christopher Allmand Henry V https://books.google.com/books?id=x28eBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA20 1 November 2014 Yale University Press 978-0-300-21293-8 20 June - Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen, first major victory for Owain Glyndŵr's Welsh rebels over the English. 2 November - At the inconclusive Battle of Tuthill, Owain Glyndŵr's forces meet the English near Caernarfon.R. R. Davies The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr https://books.google.com/books?id=2DskDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA353 20 February 1997 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-165646-0 353 1402 April - Owain Glyndŵr captures his arch-enemy, Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn.R.R. Davies Owain Glyndwr - Prince of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=iRsvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT22 3 September 2013 Y Lolfa 978-1-84771-763-4 22 22 June - Battle of Bryn Glas (also known as the Battle of Pilleth) on the border with England ends in victory for Glyndŵr. The Welsh capture Edmund Mortimer, son of the 3rd Earl, who defects to the Welsh cause, on 30 November marrying Owain's daughter Catrin.Kelly DeVries John France Clifford J. Rogers Journal of Medieval Military History https://books.google.com/books?id=WuTwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177 15 October 2015 Boydell & Brewer 978-1-78327-057-6 177 August - Glamorgan joins Glyndŵr's revolt. September - The English Parliament passes penal Laws against Wales which stop the Welsh from gathering together, obtaining office, carrying arms and living in English towns. Any Englishman who marries a Welsh woman also comes under the laws. 1403 15 May - Henry, Prince of Wales, and his men destroy Sycharth, one of the residences of Owain Glyndŵr.The Montgomeryshire Collections https://books.google.com/books?id=X2sxAQAAIAAJ 1948 Clifton Press 183 July - Owain Glyndŵr captures Carreg Cennen Castle. 21 July - Battle of Shrewsbury ends in defeat and death of Henry Percy, an ally of Owain Glyndŵr. Henry of Monmouth is seriously wounded in the battle.http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/imported-docs/p-t/shrewsbury.pdf English Heritage Battlefield Report: Shrewsbury 1403 English Heritage 1995 22 Aug 2011 Autumn (possible) - Battle of Stalling Down near Cowbridge. 1404 July - Owain Glyndŵr holds a parliament at Machynlleth.John Vyrnwy Morgan The Philosophy of Welsh History https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7U6AQAAMAAJ 1914 John Lane 295 November - The Prince of Wales and his brother Thomas of Lancaster unsuccessfully try to raise the siege of Coity Castle.Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan: Volume III https://books.google.com/books?id=LOHH20BzfmsC&pg=PA381 May 1991 Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales 978-0-11-300035-7 381 1405 28 February - Glyndŵr Rising at its peak. Tripartite Indenture agreed between Owain Glyndŵr, the Earl of Northumberland, and Edmund Mortimer, to divide Wales and England between them. 5 May - Battle of Pwll Melyn - first major defeat for Glyndŵr. July - A French force arrives at Milford Haven to assist the rebels. It takes the town of Haverfordwest, retakes Carmarthen and lays siege to Tenby, perhaps marching as far as Great Witley across the English border, but then retires. August - Owain Glyndŵr holds his second parliament, at Harlech Castle.Alfred Perceval Graves The Pageant of Harlech Castle, August 21st-26th, 1922: Book of the Words https://books.google.com/books?id=dysVAAAAQAAJ 1922 "Express" Printing Works 27 1406 31 March - Owain Glyndŵr writes the "Pennal letter" to the King of France, outlining his policy for the future government of Wales and support for the Avignon Papacy.Pennal Letter http://www.canolfanglyndwr.org/pennal-letter.php Canolfan Owain Glyndŵr 29 April 2018 1407 June - Henry, Prince of Wales, lays siege to Aberystwyth Castle.Desmond Seward Henry V as Warlord https://books.google.com/books?id=0-5Mnayi-K8C 2001 Penguin 978-0-14-139058-1 23 4 October - The Pope appoints Henry Chichele Bishop of St David's.Henry Ansgar Kelly The Middle English Bible: A Reassessment https://books.google.com/books?id=DidDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA274 14 October 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press 978-0-8122-9308-1 274 1408 Adam of Usk returns to Wales from continental exile, seeking the patronage of Owain Glyndŵr.Former Literature Director Meic Stephens Welsh Academy The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=P51iAAAAMAAJ 1986 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-211586-7 5 1409 Harlech Castle is captured by Henry of Monmouth. Margaret Hanmer (Glyndŵr's wife), her children and grandchildren are taken prisoner. As far as is known, most of them later die in captivity. 1410 Sir John Scudamore marries Alys, daughter of Owain Glyndŵr.Jane Williams A History of Wales: Derived from Authentic Sources https://books.google.com/books?id=DIXiB0AX-rAC&pg=PA457 18 November 2010 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-02085-5 457 1411 Sir William Gamage succeeds to the Coity estates on the death of Sir Laurence Berkerolles, and lays siege to Coity Castle.Adrian Pettifer Welsh Castles: A Guide by Counties https://books.google.com/books?id=Hs5DnKUSu9gC&pg=PA93 2000 Boydell & Brewer 978-0-85115-778-8 93 1412 June - The seneschal and the receiver of Brecon negotiate to ransom Dafydd Gam from his captivity in the hands of Owain Glyndŵr.Dafydd Gam (d. 1415 ), Welsh warrior s-DAFY-GAM-1415 Lloyd Sir John Edward 29 April 2018 1415 21 September - Owain Glyndŵr goes into hiding. His subsequent whereabouts and date of death are unknown. End of the Glyndŵr Rising. 25 October - Battle of Agincourt. Welsh archers are key to Henry V's victory over a much larger French army. 1417 30 April - Maredudd ab Owain Glyndŵr declines the offer of a pardon from King Henry V of England.Breverton Terry https://books.google.com/books?id=CWAuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT76 Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty 15 July 2017 Amberley Publishing 978-1-4456-5419-5 76 1418 Gruffydd Young, Owain's former Chancellor, is appointed Bishop of Ross. 1419 24 April - Philip Morgan is elected Bishop of Worcester.Fryde, E. B. http://worldcat.org/oclc/255121883 Handbook of British chronology 2003 Cambridge University Press 0-521-56350-X 255121883279 1420 16 October - In the new parliament, Roger Corbet and David Rathbone become MPs for the borough of Shrewsbury, while Roger's brother Robert represents Shropshire. 4 March - Settlement made at Shrewsbury between Edward Cherleton, Lord of Powys, and Sir Gruffudd Vaughan, his brother Ieuan ap Gruffydd, and two yeomen for the capture of Sir John Oldcastle in 1417. 1421 Maredudd ab Owain Glyndŵr accepts a pardon from King Henry V of England. 1425 Iron forge at Pontypool operating by about this date. 1426 William ap Thomas, ancestor of the Herbert Earls of Pembroke, is knighted. 1428 Earliest likely date for marriage of Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V, to Welsh courtier Owen Tudor, thus establishing the House of Tudor.Griffiths R. A. 2004 27797 Tudor, Owen [Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur] 1435 Work begins on the construction of Raglan Castle (approximate).James L. Forde-Johnston A Guide to the Castles of England and Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZJJAQAAIAAJ 1981 Constable 978-0-09-463730-6 426 1437 January - Owen Tudor is imprisoned at Newgate Prison following the death of his wife, Catherine of Valois.Great Britain. Privy Council 10 Richard II, 1386 to 11 Henry IV, 1410 https://books.google.com/books?id=-CTvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR19 1835 University Microfilms 19 1450 April - William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, is taken prisoner at the Battle of Formigny.John A. Wagner Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War https://books.google.com/books?id=uVZ893wOWgoC&pg=PA232 2006 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-32736-0 232 Eisteddfod at Carmarthen: Dafydd ab Edmwnd wins the silver chair for his poetry. 1452 7 July - Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, exiled after her conviction for sorcery in 1442, dies at Beaumaris Castle.Eleanor, duchess of Gloucester (c.1400–1452) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press Harris G. L. January 2008 online 10.1093/ref:odnb/5742 23 November - King Henry VI of England acknowledges his half-brothers, Edmund and Jasper Tudor. Edmund becomes Earl of Richmond.James Gairdner The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D. https://books.google.com/books?id=5Y5KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA254 1895 A. Constable 254 Jasper becomes Earl of Pembroke.Thomas, R. S. "Tudor, Jasper [Jasper of Hatfield], duke of Bedford", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September 2004. Accessed 2 February 2019.Griffiths, Ralph A. and James Sherborwe, ed. Kings and Nobles in the Later Middle Ages. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986) 19. 1455 1 November - Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort. 1456 August - Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, is captured by the Yorkists and imprisoned at Carmarthen Castle, where he dies on 3 November of plague. 1457 28 January - Lady Margaret Beaufort, 13-year-old widow of Edmund Tudor, gives birth to Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII of England, at Pembroke Castle.Alison Plowden The House of Tudor https://books.google.com/books?id=y1dnAAAAMAAJ 1976 Stein and Day 978-0-8128-2079-9 222 Sir Walter Griffith purchases Burton Agnes Hall in Yorkshire. 1460 10 July - Following defeat at the Battle of Northampton on this date, Margaret of Anjou, queen of England, escapes with her son, Edward, Prince of Wales, to Harlech Castle. 23 July - John De la Bere resigns as Bishop of St David's after supporting the Tudors in the civil war. 1461 February - After losing the Battle of Mortimer's Cross, Jasper Tudor is placed under an attainder. William Herbert, Lord Herbert of Raglan, assumes the guardianship of Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry, Earl of Richmond. 1467 Sir William Stanley is appointed steward of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale. 1468 24 June - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, grants a charter to Neath Abbey. 14 August - The garrison of Harlech Castle surrenders to King Edward IV after a seven-year siege.Cannon John https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00john_0/page/454 The Oxford Companion to British History Oxford University Press 1997 978-0-19-866176-4 Oxford, UK 454 registration 1469 27 July - Following the Battle of Edgecote Moor, William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and his brother Richard are executed. August - Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and his son John Woodville are placed in prison in Chepstow. 1470 13 December - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, marries (or is betrothed to) Anne Neville. 1471 4 May - Battle of Tewkesbury ends Lancastrian hopes of regaining the ascendance over the House of York. King Edward IV of England is victorious, and Edward of Westminster becomes the only Prince of Wales ever to die in battle. Sir John Donne is knighted on the field. 26 June - Prince Edward, son of King Edward IV, is invested as Prince of Wales.l Previous Princes. Prince of Wales official website. Retrieved on 15 July 2013. 13 October - Richard Redman is consecrated as Bishop of St Asaph. 1472 October - Following his investiture, Edward, Prince of Wales, takes up residence at Ludlow Castle, the seat of the Council of Wales and the Marches.Thomas Wright Historical and Descriptive Sketch of Ludlow Castle: And of the Church of St. Lawrence, Ludlow https://books.google.com/books?id=q7pHAQAAMAAJ 1901 G. Woolley 46 1473 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, is appointed Governor of the Prince of Wales's Household. John Alcock, Bishop of Rochester and the prince's tutor, becomes President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. 1478 18 February - On the death of his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, becomes Lord of Glamorgan by right of his wife Anne Neville. 10 April - The Court of the President and Council of Wales holds its first session in Ludlow.Powel David Historie of Cambria 389 6 September - John Marshall is consecrated Bishop of Llandaff.William Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum...a History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries...and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches...in England and Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=nyfzV5n0I6oC&pg=PA1218 1846 Bohn 1218 1483 14 April - At Ludlow, 12-year-old King Edward V of England receives the news of his father's sudden death and his own accession. 8 September - Edward of Middleham, son of King Richard III of England, is invested as Prince of Wales at York Minster.Kendall Paul Murray https://archive.org/details/richardthird00kend Richard the Third Allen & Urwin 1955 3007470 Paul Murray Kendall registration 25 December - At Rennes Cathedral, Henry, Earl of Richmond, pledges to marry Elizabeth of York. 1485 22 August - Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor defeats King Richard III to become the third and last Welsh-born King of England.William Hutton The Battle of Bosworth Field: Between Richard the Third and Henry Earl of Richmond, August 22, 1485 https://books.google.com/books?id=-rUBAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA76 1788 Pearson and Rollason 1 7 November - Jasper Tudor marries Catherine Woodville.W. R. B. Robinson Early Tudor Gwent, 1485-1547 https://books.google.com/books?id=bhIXAQAAIAAJ 2002 W.R.B. Robinson 8 1486 18 January - King Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York. 2 March - Jasper Tudor becomes Lord of Glamorgan.Mike Hall The Cardiff Book of Days https://books.google.com/books?id=LoA7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT73 29 February 2012 History Press 978-0-7524-8593-5 73 1488 Jasper Tudor takes possession of Cardiff Castle. 1489 29 November - The English-born Arthur Tudor is named Prince of Wales. 1490 27 February - Arthur Tudor is ceremonially invested as Prince of Wales at the Palace of Westminster. 1495 16 February - Sir William Stanley is executed for treason in London; Henry VII of England seizes Holt Castle from him. 1496 A public convenience is built on the "Old Welsh Bridge" in Shrewsbury.Blackwall Anthony Historic Bridges of Shropshire Shropshire Libraries 1985 0-903802-31-7 Shrewsbury 1498 An insurrection breaks out in Meirionnydd in north Wales; the rebels capture Harlech Castle. The revolt is the last of the medieval era in Wales.Smith J. Beverley 1966 Crown and Community in the Principality of North Wales in the Reign of Henry Tudor https://journals.library.wales/view/1073091/1074012/178#?xywh=-2003%2C-293%2C7002%2C4285 Welsh History Review 3 2 166-167Steven J. Gunn Linda Monckton Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales: Life, Death & Commemoration https://books.google.com/books?id=_5srAQAAIAAJ 2009 Boydell Press 978-1-84383-480-9 15 Works 1450s Reginald Pecock - Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie (1455)John Buchan A History of English Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=_CMmAQAAMAAJ 1925 T. Nelson and sons, Limited 42 1460s-1480s Peniarth 51 (1460)Rachel Bromwich Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=K2euBwAAQBAJ&pg=PR29 15 November 2014 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-146-1 29 Peniarth 109 Births 1401 27 October - Catherine of Valois, French-born wife of King Henry V of England and later of Owen Tudor (d. 1437)Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272–1485 Ronald H. Fritze William Baxter Robison Greenwood Publishing Group 1992 94 1430 11 June (possible date) - Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (d. 1456) 1431 unknown date - Jasper Tudor, soldier (d. 1495)Pugh T. B. The Ending of the Middle Ages, 1485–1536 Glamorgan County History Pugh T. B. III: The Middle Ages 1971 University of Wales Press Cardiff https://archive.org/details/bwb_KR-502-255 registration 555 1444 14 February - Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick (d. 1449) Hicks 1998 M.A. Warwick the Kingmaker t6v8mzfcxFQC yes Blackwell Publishers Oxford 978-0-631-16259-9 Michael Hicks (historian) 98 1451 5 March - William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1491) 1453 13 October - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (d. 1471)Charles Kidd Christine Shaw Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=BDIZAQAAIAAJ 24 June 2008 Debrett's 978-1-870520-80-5 140 1457 28 January - Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII of England (d. 1509) 1470 4 November - Edward "of the Sanctuary", later Prince of Wales and King Edward V of England (d. 1483?)Horrox, Rosemary. "Edward V of England". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 25 August 2013. 1478 3 February - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (executed 1521)Davies C. S. L. 2008 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham (1478–1521) 26202 1485 16 December - Catherine of Aragon, later Princess of Wales (d. 1536)Davies C. S. L. Edwards John Oxford Dictionary of National Biography January 2008 Oxford, England Katherine (1485–1536) 10.1093/ref:odnb/4891 1486 19 September - Arthur, Prince of Wales (d. 1502)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/705 Arthur, prince of Wales (1486–1502) 2004 7 October 2013 Horrox, Rosemary 10.1093/ref:odnb/705 1491 28 June - Henry, Duke of York, later Prince of Wales and King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547) Deaths 1402 date unknown - Hywel Sele, nobleman 1410 11 April - John Trevor, Bishop of St Asaph 1415 25 October - Dafydd Gam, soldierEvan Jones A Portrait of Machynlleth and Its Surroundings https://books.google.com/books?id=oduum2r12x8C&pg=PA16 2009 Coch Y Bonddu Books 978-1-904784-24-1 16 1422 31 August - Henry V of England, former Prince of Wales, 34Chronological Tables: Comprehending the Chronology and History of the World, from the Earliest Records to the Close of the Russian War https://books.google.com/books?id=_4oPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA291 1857 R. Griffin 291 1430 date unknown - Adam of Usk, chronicler 1435 25 October - Philip Morgan, Bishop of Ely 1437 3 January - Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V of England and secret wife of Owen Tudor, 35Derrik Mercer Chronicle of the Royal Family https://books.google.com/books?id=ivo9okUs30wC February 1993 Chronicle Communications 978-1-872031-20-0 109 1440 30 September - Reynold Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin, about 78Sir Leslie Stephen Sir Sidney Lee Dictionary of National Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=RuTQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA198 1890 Smith, Elder, & Company 198 1445 date unknown - Sir William ap Thomas, builder of Raglan CastleThe Archaeological Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=M09nAAAAMAAJ 1976 Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman 1446 21 October - William Lyndwood, Bishop of St David'sArthur Penrhyn Stanley Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey https://books.google.com/books?id=ViYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA360 1869 J. Murray 360 1456 3 November - Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, 26 1461 2 February - Owen Tudor, courtier, 60? (executed) probable - Reginald Pecock, Bishop of St AsaphV. H. H. Green Bishop Reginald Pecock https://books.google.com/books?id=v7BkAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 29 May 2014 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-64358-1 65 1467 21 November - John Low, Bishop of St Asaph 1469 27 July - William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, 46? (executed)Anne Curry Adrian R. Bell Soldiers, Weapons and Armies in the Fifteenth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=mN07G3w3lUwC&pg=PA101 September 2011 Boydell & Brewer Ltd 978-1-84383-668-1 101 1471 May - Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower (executed)R A Griffiths The Making of the Tudor Dynasty https://books.google.com/books?id=zUY7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78 24 October 2011 History Press 978-0-7524-7312-3 78 1483 25 June - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, Governor of the Prince of Wales's Household, 43? (executed)Tony Copsey Suffolk Writers from the Beginning Until 1800: A Catalogue of Suffolk Authors with Some Account of Their Lives and a List of Their Writings https://books.google.com/books?id=I1QfAQAAIAAJ 2000 Book Company 978-0-9522970-1-7 549 1484 9 April - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, aged about 10 date unknown - David ap Mathew, standard bearer of King Edward IV of England, 84 1485 16 March - Anne Neville, former Princess of Wales, 28Michael Van Cleave Alexander Three Crises in Early English History: Personalities and Politics During the Norman Conquest, the Reign of King John, and the Wars of the Roses https://books.google.com/books?id=Hj6uYu0LiO0C&pg=PA242 1998 University Press of America 978-0-7618-1188-6 242 1492 20 September - George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny, about 52 1493 date unknown - Guto'r Glyn, bard and soldier, about 60s-GUTO-GLY-1440 Guto'r Glyn, a bard who sang during the second half of the 15th century (1440-1493) Ifor Williams 21 March 2021 1496 January/February - John Marshall, Bishop of Llandaff 1499 c.November - John Ingleby, Bishop of Llandaff, about 65John Le Neve Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the Chief Officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge https://books.google.com/books?id=8ItbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA250 1854 University Press 250 1500 1 October - John Alcock, Tudor supporter and Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches References Category:Lordship of Bromfield and Yale