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

See the lists of English

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

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