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LLEWELYN I

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 831 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LLEWELYN I  ., AB IORWERTH (d . 1240), See also:prince of See also:North See also:Wales, was See also:born after the See also:expulsion of his See also:father, lorwerth, from the principality . In 1194, while still a youth, See also:Llewelyn recovered the paternal See also:inheritance . In 1201 he was the greatest prince in Wales . At first he was a friend of See also:King See also:John, whose illegitimate daughter, See also:Joanna, he took to wife (1201); but the See also:alliance soon See also:fell through, and in 1211 John reduced Llewelyn to submission . In the next See also:year Llewelyn recovered all his losses in North Wales . In 1215 he took See also:Shrewsbury . His rising had been encouraged by the See also:pope, by See also:France, and by the See also:English barons . His rights were secured by See also:special clauses in Magna Carta . But he never desisted from his See also:wars with the Marchers of See also:South Wales, and in the See also:early years of See also:Henry III. he was several times attacked by English armies . In 1239 he was struck with See also:paralysis and retired from the active See also:work of See also:government in favour of his son See also:David . He retired into a Cistercian monastery .

See the lists of English See also:

chronicles for the reigns of John and Henry III.; also the Welsh See also:chronicle See also:Brut y Tywysogion (ed . Rolls See also:Series); O . M . See also:Edwards, See also:History of Wales (1901); T . F . Tout in the See also:Political History of See also:England, iii . (1905) .

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