The Story of Rhuddlan Castle

[@Walks-with-Dave]

Very interesting and very informative… such a lot of history in the area that you have covered. Thank you so much for a fascinating video. Looking forward to seeing more. ❤

[@GTexplores]

Thankyou very much! There's much more to come. As my channels grow, I plan to cover some places further away including places in Britain and Europe. For example, a village with a yew tree under which Caesar slept whilst he was on his way to Britain and a small city with some amazingly intact Roman remains which is not in Italy.

[@Walks-with-Dave]

@@GTexplores All sounds very intriguing, looking forward to seeing them 👍🏻❤️

[@MassiveChetBakerFan]

Great information and footage, thank you!

[@GTexplores]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lookwhatsup546]

My 19th great grandmother was born at Rhuddlan Castle. Elizabeth of Rhuddlan August 7 1284. She was the youngest daughter of King Edward the 1st. and Queen Eleanor of Castile.

[@GTexplores]

Awesome!

[@ksks6619]

interesting! That's good you know your own ancestors story! How does history flow in your veins and does it make you particularly attached to certain part of Britain today or not necessarily? I mean do you feel your life has to be somewhere around or doesn't it matter and you live as any modern person of the C21 driven by all the same concerns regardless of your own ancestry?

[@nicholasjones7312]

The strategic position of Rhuddlan was previously acknowledged by the earlier motte and Bailey castle close to this castle

[@GTexplores]

Twt Hill is a splendid site, and will be covered in a couple of videos I'm currently filming.

[@ksks6619]

Dear Sir, Many thanks for doing this video. I am wondering though if Edward I of England actually betraying the Welsh had also tried to bring all these people (staff) working at Rhuddlan castle to his cause as he had protected the town where they lived. Of course one may say that protecting the town meant a first barrier before attacking the castle + to protect its people Edward ensured his castle kept running even under threat. However do you believe that one can argue that to keep the castle 'staff' happy, they would be faithful to him and to England? Perhaps to sustain this argument, it takes to understand whether that 'staff' was originally welsh or were they people from Chester or elsewhere in England? I would not believe that at that time, in the thirteenth century, people would leave their village in England wherever it was just to go live in a remote castle, but I don't know?

[@GTexplores]

I know what you are saying and it makes my brain hurt when I try to work it all out!