See also:HARLECH (perhaps for Hardd See also:lech, See also:fair See also:slate, or Harleigh, an Anglicized variant)
, a See also:town of Merionethshire, See also:Wales, 38 m. from See also:Aberystwyth, and 29 from See also:Carnarvon on the See also:Cambrian railway
.
Pop
.
900
.
Ruins of a fortress See also:crown the See also:rock of See also:Harlech, about See also:half a mile from the See also:sea
.
See also:Discovery of See also:Roman coins makes it probable that it was once occupied by the See also:Romans
.
In the 3rd See also:century Bronwen (See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white bosom), daughter of See also:Bran Fendigaid (the blessed), is said to have stayed here, perhaps by force; and there was here a See also:tower, called Twr Bronwen, and replaced about A.D
.
550 by the See also:building of Maelgwyn Gwynedd, See also:prince of See also:North Wales
.
In the See also:early loth century, Harlech See also:castle was, apparently, repaired by Colwyn, See also:lord of Ardudwy, founder of one of the fifteen North Wales tribes, and thence called Caer Colwyn
.
The See also:present structure See also:dates, like many others in the principality, from See also:Edward I., perhaps even from the plans of the architect of Carnarvon and See also:Conway castles, but with the retention of old portions
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It is thought to have been square, each See also:side measuring some 210 ft., with towers and turrets
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See also:Glendower held it for four years
.
Here, in 146o, See also:Margaret, wife of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VI., defeated at See also:Northampton, took See also:refuge
.
Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Einion held it for the Lancastrians, until See also:famine, rather than Edward IV., made him surrender
.
From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time is said to date the See also:air " See also:March of the men of Harlech " (Rhyfelgerdd gwyr Harlech)
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The castle was alternately See also:Roundhead and See also:Cavalier in the See also:civil See also:war
.
Edward I. made Harlech a See also:free See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough, and it was formerly the See also:county town
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It is in the See also:parish of Llandanwg (pop. in 1901, 931)
.
Though interesting from an antiquarian point of view, the See also:district around, especially Dyffryn Ardudwy (the valley), is dreary and desolate,
viii
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(with portrait)
.
In memory of See also:Professor See also:Harkness his See also:sister established two Harkness scholarships
.
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