The legend of Owain Glyndwr (part 1 of 8)

[@jackolous]

As a Welsh born film writer that's about to take on the world of cinema I vow to one day make this film happen

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

DO IT!

[@Freakazoid3568]

There should be a movie about him

[@ealing456]

Wales really deserves a thriving national cinema of its own.

[@williamllwyn1258]

A series in the style of "Vikings" or a long that line would be better than a film as they could go into so much more detail.

[@Freakazoid3568]

William Llwyn i agree

[@janiap5235]

I agree, there should be a film about him. It would show how beautiful all Wales is, we have our very own language, and owain glyndwr is the true Prince of Wales, no other. Given this title does not mean other is the Prince of Wales. To be able to learn and speak the language, and even hold a conversation would be an achievement. English can be spoken in most countries, but we will always keep our language. Da ni yma ohyd, ac yma y byddan ni hefyd , cawn ddim ein sathru! Dim peryg yn y byd

[@philldavies7940]

Huw Edwards? why do you think that?

[@mayforddavis9291]

Ancestors from Wales; born in Illinois; now live in Texas. It is a shame some posters have to resort to foul language etc to try and make an uneducated statement. I really enjoy the opportunity to look at the history of a mighty County; just a shame it is not a sovereign Country. Thanks for sharing our history; much can be learned from history.

[@genedoolie2877]

well Scotland almost won its independence, with Brexit there maybe another referendum on a split with the UK, this may cause a complete break up of the UK.

[@joshgoldbullion]

Im proud to be Welsh i love this country I live in north wales and I sometimes drink a pub called the Owain Glyndwr :) thx for the upload!

[@smokynmonkee5054]

he is my 19th great grandfather ! drink one for me ! Cheers !

[@gordonhotchkiss5753]

joshgoldbullion Their is a pub in Cardiff called Owain Glyndwr.

[@reynoldsjlee]

I just traced our family tree back to Owain!!! I haven't counted back how many great grandfather's; I'm still too worn out! I"m learning more about him now!

[@genedoolie2877]

North wales since I was born!

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

You Briton sure have an interesting history, when i say british litterature i mean "Welsh, Alt Clut", and maybe even Cornish" because of the Legend of King Arthur.

[@NatureLover-ji4gl]

Respect to all those who fought & still fighting for Welsh independence & freedom from english control!✔💯❤

[@SimulationEvolve]

Unfortunately we had incompetent people like Leanne Wood who wanted independance.. by leaving England and Joining the EU... and saying things like "if you come to Wales, you are Welsh" I haven't looked into the new Plaid leader though

[@emmadempsey7906]

when ur so obsessed with the raven cycle you end up here

[@erint8550]

#savegansey

[@kaylastevens8445]

same

[@emmy9797]

ME RIGHT NOW OMGGG I'M NOT ALONE

[@cocacolastic-ll9vd]

Yup.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

There should be series about this revolt and this Great guy! A Real Briton uprising!

[@ieuanmeates1395]

I love this. But it's such a shame that I was never taught anything about Owain throughout school, not even in Welsh lessons (Which were a complete joke and not taken seriously). It's embarrassing. Having spent a lot of time in London, and being asked about our culture and language and having nothing to respond with, I now take pride in independent learning of our language and history. I am determined to speak fluent Welsh and have a strong understanding of my heritage :) I'm only 21, so there's plenty of time...But I for one will be making sure my children learn both our language and history.

[@ealing456]

As much as I approve of the Welsh assembly, they went about teaching Cymraeg in schools in totally the wrong way. I remember countless Welsh lessons where pupils would heckle the Welsh teachers with questions like: "But what good will Welsh have?". Welsh history not being taught sufficiently in schools is part of the problem. Lessons about Welsh culture should be more than just: 'We have an Eisteddfod, and we had the mines ... once, and now we have rugby.' I wasn't taught about Y Mabinogi ONCE in 10 years of public schooling. I think Owain Glyndwr got a passing mention in primary school, but the focus was solely on the English crown.

[@MeAbroad2004]

Aye. As a young child I was unaware just how important language is as a marker of identity. Being Welsh meant having St David´s day and supporting the team in - what was then - the 5 Nations. It was only as an adult and having travelled a fair bit this this identity (of being Welsh first, British 2nd) came to become part of who I am. I wish I had been made more aware as a child and how I wish I had paid more attention in Welsh class. I feel that its was not pushed as being important. As for learning history in junior or high school... Henry VII had a bit of Welsh blood in him.. his uncle Jasper was wholly Welsh... Henry VIII was born in Pembroke castle... and that was it... done

[@genedoolie2877]

well I can tell you why you just learn the 3 Hs Hitler-Holocaust-Henry the 8th. but you wont listen, or maybe you will because you are Welsh. History in school is just ticking boxes and installing white guilt, of course they would never tell you that are race (European) has been made into slaves more than any other race at one time, am sure school wouldn't dare tell you the truth about who we really are and where we come from. one sad thing too tell you about North/Mid wales, you can kiss it goodbye if what I think is going to happen, let me please ask you this: has there been many new supermarkets built in your town in say the last 3 years?

[@SimulationEvolve]

History A levels were a joke, before I got to year 12 my teacher told us the importance of looking at both sides of an argument and judging the source material to look for bias etc then in comes my A level teacher who taught us about how good the suffragettes were not even questioning them i.e conveniently stopping their protest for equality when men were sent to die in the first world war the guy also laughed at a student for having right wing politics. I myself got extra Welsh classes in school I'm not sure why maybe because my Welsh is not correct because of treiglad meddal and all that in anycase in those lessons our teacher taught us about Welsh villages being flooded and the Welsh not etc. But as others say, a lot of kids don't see the point in Welsh a lot of the time its influence from English kids who say its a pointless language and it certainly doesn't help that English migrants have displaced natives and more recently the waves of Somalians and Arabic Migrants.. my village has some people who don't even speak Welsh or English!

[@cong3768]

@@SimulationEvolve its not just wales its every white country we are all being done away with and the worst thing is its being done on purpose by a certain group.

[@vincentvangogh8092]

Everytime i hear the words Prince of Wales it brings sadness to me

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

This presenter is great! I’ve seen him in other British history docos but this is the best

[@TheGallifreyanWitch]

WOW - the tv program with me in!!! I've been looking for this for ages! I'm the girl by the fireplace in the banquet scene! Thank You so Much!

[@Gwenalltapowain]

@CalumGilholy Thanx for you're comment my Celtic friend!!!! CYMRU AM BYTH!! WALES FOR EVER!!

[@MrMetalheart10]

The Welsh fought long and hard against the English and I respect that, I'm Scottish btw, I know some of you are all like Owain>Wallace and shite like that but they were both heroes of their respective countries, and you can say what you like about either of them but they bring pride to the people they fought for and thats all that matters.

[@xplorva]

If the genealogy charts are correct, then he was my 19th great grandfather through his daughter, Jonet, who married John Croft. My 10th great grandfather who was descended from him was Rev. John Davenport, who co-founded New Haven, CT in 1638.

[@owainglyndwr2710]

xplor va his sister lowri is my 18th gt grandmother

[@callumwynne5370]

She (Lowri) is my 20th great grandmother through marriage, I descend paternally from a cousin branch of the House of Mathrafal, through the Lords of Rug-Yn-Edeyrnion to the Wynns of Duddleston and from them to me.

[@staceyleeellis9160]

I believe I’m related to him via his cousin Hywell sele or Howell sele. I’m of the Vaughan’s of Montgomeryshire. I wish my Nan had been alive to tell her my findings.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Seems this Prince had a lot of descendance

[@newcasual22]

Fidel Castro stated that glyndwr was “the World’s first guerilla leader” and even used some of his tactics.

[@tSp289]

I am pretty sure Caradog and his allies beat him to that when they were fighting the Romans.

[@tSp289]

***** Whether or not the man himself existed, the Welsh tribes cost the Romans a lot of blood. That much is well documented. So did other tribes in the fens and in Scotland; wherever the landscape gave them opportunities to ambush, guerrilla tactics were used. Any stories from that long ago are going to be scant in terms of real evidence, especially when it comes to heroic deeds and achievements.

[@norbonorebo1798]

The Welsh are the only true Britons.

[@StewartEvans52]

your so wrong,picts are too,and cornish,im welsh but lets not be so brash hey?

[@caijones156]

Taffy 83 yea but the pics were killed by the Irish Scots

[@justsomegoy7839]

@@StewartEvans52 Cumbrians are too but they've forgot

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

When i mention britons, i think of welsh, cornish and maybe cumbrics

[@kranapan]

To be fair ancestrally, and in many ways culturally, the people of most areas of England go back way further than the Anglo-Saxon influx.

[@vikingshelm]

jackolous I would applaud any film made correctly about this great man!!!!! Let me know if you make one...maybe I can save up money and bring my kids on a vacation to be involved in the shoot!! Im a Williams..my family hailed from Glamorgan!!

[@OwainOwine]

Proud to have his name.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Makes me sad that a Prince Arthur of the Twydwyr Dynasty died and didn't become the King Arthur to make the Briton Prophecy of a Native Briton ruling Britannia

[@MeAbroad2004]

Thank you for the upload

[@bernie4268]

There’s a great statue of Glydwr in Corwen, where author John Cowper Powys lived and wrote his book. Have fond memories of visiting there in North Wales, and climbing Snowden.

[@bonzey1171]

@glyndwr65 Thanks for uploading this documentary. Also thanks for the heads up on the upcoming BBC history of Wales documentary. I will keep my eyes peeled. It sounds right up my alley. Probably be near impossible to find over here. Maybe someone will (I hope) upload it after it makes it's spiffing debut. That would be fantastic. Thanks again!

[@nattygerman]

A film should be made! Another Braveheart but one where we look good :)

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

In Braveheart Welsh were bad? Btw the way William Wallace was Welsh by roots, Wallace meant "walsh" "lewallais" in norman french

[@MacTireMhaighEo]

@TalaJenta Definitely! Huw Edwards should do more Welsh specific programmes. I'd love him to do a series on general Welsh history and another on Welsh culture.

[@dafyddwilliams8496]

He did 'The Story of Wales' four years ago. It's available on KZbin or on DVD.

[@MrBillcale]

hats off to the welsh dude the english are so smug

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

I just realized that many comments are 10 years old! Wow, there is no chance someone replying to me after all these years i think

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

@@samuelmc0123 sweet someone replied! I love your comment but unfortunately i am not Greek, but Philhellene, im Spanish and my ancestors fought the savage moors. I was very happy to hear that one of the foreign embassies of the short lived state of Owain Glyndwr was from Castile-Leon (Real Meddieval Spain) We Spanish and Welsh look similar

[@bobbobson7165]

Agreed, at that time Scotland was divided between the Welsh (in the lowlands) and the Picts (in the highland areas). Even Edinburgh was once a Welsh settlement.

[@andreawhysall5181]

(on my mums account)..... i was born in Forfar, Angus (Scotland) My Mum, my Auntie and Uncle was born in Porthcawl, my Grandad was born in Maesteg, My Gran was also born in Porthcawl, my real Dad in Auckland. Got a true mix! ALBA - GU - BRATH CYMRU - AM - BYTH

[@medievalgirl002]

Good to see someone on a You Tube comment board that appreciates and values accurate History. Thank you! Seriously though, I think William Wallace is over hyped, I mean where are the blockbuster movies about Robert the Bruce? He is more equally deserving of praise and honour as Wallace, if not far moreso, because he made a far more significant contribution to the cause of Scottish freedom.

[@grantosjones]

thank you for uploading this :)

[@TheRugbyspark]

Fantastic...thanks for posting. Cymru am byth

[@KaiserMacCleg]

@Glywysing942 Absolutely. How many people in Wales know about the Merthyr Rising, the Blue Books, the principality of the two Llywelyns and the writings of Aneurin and Taliesin? Effectively everything I know about Welsh history I have researched myself, while history lessons in school consisted of American and German history and ensuring we could recite which of Henry VIII's wives were divorced, beheaded or miraculously untouched. About time to get some Welsh history in the curriculum, IMO.

[@jbailor13]

Happy St. David's Day to all.

[@genedoolie2877]

in the 2nd world war there should have been an SS waffen Owain Glyndwr division! welsh dragon on the collar tab - Owain Glynndwr on the cuff title !!!!!!

[@matthewlucas4142]

I'm learning Welsh, which has gotten me interested in Welsh History.. can anyone recommend other sources? Diolch ymlaen llaw

[@topwelda147]

Matthew Lucas you would say "diolch yn fawr iawn" which is thank you very much, diolch ymlaen would translate to thank you for looking forward lol

[@smokynmonkee5054]

This is my 19th Great Grandfather

[@thomasscullion9449]

As a Scotsman is it not time for the union flag to have the dragon of wales on it. The flag has changed several times since King James V1 and 1st flew it. I think wales needs to stand up and start the converstion of it from all your celtic brothers

[@Amemti]

Very interesting, never heard of Owain before. Now I need to know more! :)

[@Andulsi]

@Gwenalltapowain been to Wales many times. Best welcome on the Island of Britain. Many Welsh cheered us from the sidelines during our bid for independence in Ireland in the late 1910s. You people ought to throw off Westminster rule. It d be a good thing

[@ianroberts992]

They have to make a film about this fella

[@nerysjones7333]

Strange, why is part two missing from this documentary?? Part three and the rest of them,but not part two.

[@WoundstoScars]

i like it . love history

[@rick3626]

Anyone know how to find part 2

[@Dublinerz]

Great man He fought the english

[@kennethbranscum6891]

This is my way back grandfather

[@owainglyndwr2710]

He would be my 18th gt uncle. Oh the joy of being Welsh

[@bruceoconnor9881]

Sadly the sound is very muddy and hard to follow! :-(

[@987jof]

Just to clarify, William Wallace is not braveheart. The real title of braveheart was given to Robert the Bruce.

[@medievalgirl002]

@DublinaThe Am I wrong in thinking that The Mortimers and Henry Percy joined with Glendower against Henry at one point?

[@LivingWellTV]

I've been to a pub named after this guy so It's good to actually hear his story?

[@RyanRyzzo]

The Scottish lion is probably around since the Irish clans. But adopted in the 13th century. The rampant lions of Powys and Deheubarth may be slightly older. Both may have their origins in post-Roman Britain.

[@witchwitch543]

"What do you know about Welsh Kings?" ~TRC

[@owainglyndwr2710]

Kamila Białecka Owain Gwynedd is my 30th gt grandfather

[@fabolousnature3873]

​@@owainglyndwr2710 how is that possible after the rebellion the person children and wife were sent to london tower and vanished forever By not me some articles

[@david880brown]

Does any one know what the verse on the grave stone of Rhys Gethin reads? I understand he was one of Owain Glyndwr's most loyal followers.

[@OW41N]

@Megagremlyn you are partly correct it is wallish that means foreigner in saxon but obviously wales comes from that :D and cymry as it was origionally pronounced means brotherhood, as all welshmen saw eachother as brothers that would fight for the freedom of their country

[@davidjatt3251]

Another Owen who said "enough is enough and it's time for a change"

[@redcoatsrule]

@scarff94 celtic britons didn't live in England before the anglo saxon because there was no England before the anglo saxons England is named after the angles.

[@dancingnancy09]

@medievalgirl002 Finally someone on a youtube comment board who actually knows some accurate history!! thank you!

[@gratzy2]

@yippitydodah agreed. owain glyndwr even did more for wales before he died than prince charles will EVER do for wales in his fucking life

[@sonitaberoog5233]

Rebuilding the Past of Castles

[@mosschopsishome]

Hi which series is this episode from please?

[@flicky4]

Amen

[@1denben]

' Not in the roll of common men ' Shakespere.

[@acerb4566]

I think theres a Scot's connection. Maybe an old marriage of alliance from the day's of The Bruce?

[@scarff94]

when i say we spoke a language similar to welsh i mean the celtic britons that lived in england before the germanic anglo saxons came and vikings, im from chester on the border and im sure im a good mix of celt, germanic heritage, so when i say we i could mean the celts. which is what i was trying to suggest. my brown curly hair explains some of it :)

[@xplorva]

Yeah, it's too bad there's not more publicity about him. I only learned about him because I was doing my ancestry through Rev. John Davenport, founder of New Haven, CT. He was descended from Owain - so that'd make Glyndwr my 19th great-grandfather. Interesting.

[@logos513]

wheres part 2?

[@Glyndwr65]

Here you go logos kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3PMfHljiJiNmtE

[@PNETriffid]

Surely Edward I only completed the last part of the Welsh conquest, namely the conquest of Gwynedd.

[@ostrogoth182]

if it wasnt for mortimer Wales would have conqured england

[@Cormano980]

That poet was a freeloader

[@nrjelley]

@medievalgirl002 yes I meant mongrel, my mistake I typed the comment late at night.

[@Scalliescouser]

theres always "the ballad of Owain Glyndwr".

[@PennyTraition]

Amen...

[@janiap5235]

Only one prince of wales and that is owain glyndwr, other has the title but is by no way the true Prince of Wales.

[@nrjelley]

It's a shame Owain was our last native Prince Of Wales. It would have been nice if the English allowed us to keep our native Prince tradition and not big ears who is an ENglish/German mongol!

[@Dublinerz]

@medievalgirl002 @medievalgirl002 I don't know but it sounds quite plausable. In the words of the great Robin Williamson ' oh the tangles of it all '

[@Donkamandic]

kids nowadays cant be arsed to learn the welsh language unless their brought up with it when their born and fluent in it, i envy them, but u can tell that kids fluent in welsh are more patriotic in welsh pride where the others either want to english or are idiots

[@liljansmusik]

@Polybun All this is true, but it's still an interesting and watchable documentary. Take it or leave it.

[@Maguirearch]

Are todays Irish Mortimers related to the Mortimers assigned to run Ireland from Trim Castle

[@cirawilliams7978]

I CAME HERE CAUSE OF MY HISTORY HOMEWORK

[@HeCticViPeR808]

I'm pretty sure I'm in ur class...

[@HeCticViPeR808]

I'm pretty sure I'm in ur class...

[@barryspencer2533]

They fucked this up no part 2

[@medievalgirl002]

@nrjelley You mean Mongrel, and Mongol is someone different entirely!

[@valensinn2395]

I am related to him

[@b-m9480]

Sounds better as O-wain Glyn-dwyr

[@converter7]

I think his pronunciation is rather good for a Sais, usually they say O-Wen.

[@dafyddwilliams8496]

Are you referring to Huw Edwards?!

[@timothyphillips5043]

He's as Welsh as you idiot.

[@urenco1]

jesuis.well put .But the welsh served prince Hal later on in Agincourt.Funny old world we live in!!

[@acerb4566]

ps: Why didnt he help the House of Stuart? Then Welsh and Scot's nobles could have "aquired" land's occupied by the (Norman/English!). Wales could have expanded all the way to Sussex! Cornwall! And us "Heelander's!" could have made Scotland much bigger too! And the Stuart house could have been saved!

[@medievalgirl002]

@TheBelovedButterfly To true, though this fact is hardly ever acknowledged.

[@PennyTraition]

Well, quite! You speak volumes for your folk! I think you fail to see beyond your own myopic megolomania, but then the TRUTH must hurt as it drives you to such vitriolic tantrums...The fact that the South stole all the Northern Heroes (via Geoffrey of Monmouth, the, er, ''Historian'' largely, but others too.) "We"? "mother tongue"? Ooh! Wasn't it Wonderful for Taliesen to have been a one time Bard to Urien-Rheged? All the Arthurian legends and Myrddin / Merlin to have been Northern and Scottish?

[@Gwenalltapowain]

@swingbeeper Diolch brawd!! Fe godwn ni eto Hyfryd iawn I ddodi y saes yn I Le!! Rydym ni yma o hyd!!!!!!!!

[@acerb4566]

1:05.....Why is he wearing the royal flag of Scotland?? = Yellow background. Red lion rampant.

[@callumwynne5370]

It is the Rampant Lion of the House of Mathrafal, the other Lion the Gold one is of the House of Dinefwr.

[@mattmiller1112]

@4:52 conclusive proof that yolo is gay and anyone who also says yolo Is gay as well

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

you might want to read up on your history there jock

[@mattbox87]

I think the accent is getting to me. I'm afraid that if I come across a comely welsh woman, I might be helpless.

[@timothyphillips5043]

bog of then.

[@mrsbwilliams]

cer dy welu, hanner het

[@tuffgonggbUNCTION]

KYMRY MARANATHA

[@PennyTraition]

You seemed to be a little bothered about it in the delightful comment about myself and my ancestors, drear...PLUS your comment here: "We don't hate the Gogs we pity their inferiority..." And, "mother tongue?" "We all speak English now"? Who? And, I really don't care about your mummy. Grow up. Won what?

[@PennyTraition]

"The famous Scot" mentioned, yeah, we know about the film "Braveheart", but what was the event leading up to his bursting on to the scene? The sacking of Berwick-on Tweed-by an English Army made up of, largely, "25,000 foot soldiers [including 11,000 south Welshmen, many of them expert archers]..." After sacking Berwick, slaughtering up to 10,000 folk and humiliating them, Edward imposed a heavy tax and planned to build a bastide town. The SOUTH Welsh hate NORTH Cymru and the whole of y Gogledd!

[@gingerbeer3]

Glyndwr > Wallace

[@laceykauk]

More on this gay

[@gratzy2]

lmao what?

[@henryvagincourt4502]

He spent most of his time asking the French for help, half of Wales didn't support him in his rebellion, and what did he do in the end, run off, and we never heard of him again.

[@Mia-dh4ev]

The merchants murdered the Royal house of Wales fear for their lives is why half of Wales didn't support him.

[@henryvagincourt4502]

@@Mia-dh4ev + Houses, for they was more than one Royal Welsh line, in fact there were a number of Welsh Princedom's, Wales was never united even before the Norman's arrived, brother killing or in imprisoning brother, far from the romantic tales.

[@Mia-dh4ev]

So what if those that bore us fought amongst themselves the Merchants tribal divisions was deliberate play one group off against another.

[@cymro6537]

​​@@henryvagincourt4502'Wales was never united' ? Obviously, you've never heard of the Welsh king , *Gruffydd ap Llywelyn*