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See also:GLENDOWER, See also:OWEN (c. 1359–1415) , the last to claim the See also:title of an See also:independent See also:prince of See also:Wales, more correctly described as Owain ab Gruffydd, See also:lord of Glyndyvrdwy in See also:Merioneth, was a See also:man of See also:good See also:family, with two See also:great houses, Sycharth and Glyndyvrdwy in the See also:north, besides smaller estates in See also:south Wales. His See also:father was called Gruffydd Vychan, and his See also:mother See also:Helen; on both sides he had pretensions to be descended from the old Welsh princes. Owen was probably See also:born about 1359, studied See also:law at See also:Westminster, was See also:squire to the See also:earl of See also:Arundel, and a See also:witness for Grosvenor in the famous See also:Scrope and Grosvenor lawsuit in 1386. Afterwards he was in the service 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 of
See also:Bolingbroke, the future See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, though by an See also:error it has been commonly stated that he was squire to See also:Richard II. Welsh sympathies were, however, on Richard's See also:side, and combined with a See also:personal See also:quarrel to make Owen the See also:leader of a See also:national revolt.
The lords of Glyndyvrdwy had an See also:ancient See also:feud with their See also:English neighbours, the Greys of See also:Ruthin. Reginald See also:Grey neglected to summon Owen, as was his See also:duty, for the Scottish expedition of 1400, and then charged him with See also:treason for failing to appear. Owen thereupon took up arms, and when Henry IV. returned from See also:Scotland in See also:September he found north Wales ablaze. A hurried See also:campaign under the king's personal command was ineffectual. Owen's estates were declared forfeit and vigorous See also:measures threatened by the English See also:government. Still the revolt gathered strength. In the See also:spring of 1401 Owen was raiding in south Wales, and credited with the intention of invading See also:England. A second campaign by the king in the autumn was defeated, like that of the previous See also:year, through See also:bad See also:weather and the See also:Fabian See also:tactics of the Welsh. Owen had already been intriguing with Henry See also:Percy (Hotspur), who during 1401 held command in north Wales, and with Percy's See also:brother-in-law, See also:Sir See also:Edmund See also:Mortimer. During the See also:winter of 1401–1402 his plans were further extended to negotiations with the See also:rebel Irish, the Scots and the See also:French. In the spring he had grown so strong that he attacked Ruthin, and took Grey prisoner. In the summer he defeated the men of See also:Hereford under Edmund Mortimer at Pilleth, near Brynglas, in See also:Radnorshire. Mortimer was taken prisoner and treated with such friendliness as to make the English doubt his See also:loyalty; within a few months he married Owen's daughter. In the autumn the English king was for the third 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 driven " bootless See also:home and weather-beaten back." The few English strongholds See also:left in Wales were now hard pressed, and Owen boasted that he would meet his enemy in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field. Nevertheless, in May 1403 Henry of Mon-mouth was allowed to See also:sack Sycharth and Glyndyvrdwy unopposed. Owen had a greater See also:plot in See also:hand. The Percies were to rise in arms, and See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting Owen at See also:Shrewsbury, overwhelm the prince before help could arrive. But Owen's See also:share in the undertaking miscarried through his own defeat near See also:Carmarthen on the 12th of See also:July, and Percy was crushed at Shrewsbury ten days later. Still the Welsh revolt was never so formidable. Owen styled himself openly prince of Wales, established a See also:regular government, and called a See also:parliament at Machynlleth. As a result of a formal See also:alliance the French sent troops to his aid; and in the course of 1404 the great castles of See also:Harlech and Aberystwith See also:fell into his hands.
In the spring of 14o5 Owen was at the height of his See also:power; but the See also:tide turned suddenly. Prince Henry defeated the Welsh at Grosmont in See also:March, and twice again in May, when Owen's son See also:Griffith and his See also:chancellor were made prisoners. Scrope's See also:rebellion in the North prevented the English from following up their success. The earl of See also:Northumberland took See also:refuge in Wales, and the tripartite alliance of Owen with Percy and Mortimer (transferred by See also:Shakespeare to an earlier occasion) threatened a renewal of danger. But Northumberland's plots and the active help of the French proved ineffective. The English under Prince Henry gained ground steadily, and the recovery of Aberystwith, after a See also:long See also:siege, in the autumn of 1408 marked the end of serious warfare. In See also:February 1409 Harlech was also recaptured, and Owen's wife, daughter and grandchildren were taken prisoners. Owen himself still held out and even continued to intrigue with the French. In July 1415 See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert See also:Talbot had power to treat with Owen and his supporters and admit them to See also:pardon. Owen's name does not occur in the document renewing Talbot's See also:powers in February 1416; according to See also:Adam of See also:Usk he died in 1415. Later English writers allege that he died of See also:starvation in the mountains; but Welsh See also:legend represents him as spending a peaceful old See also:age with his sons-in-law at Ewyas and Monington in See also:Herefordshire, till his See also:death and See also:burial at the latter See also:place. The See also:dream of an independent and See also:united Wales was never nearer realization than under Owen's leadership. The disturbed See also:state of England
helped him, but he was indeed a remarkable See also:personality, and has not undeservedly become a national See also:hero. Sentiment and tradition have magnified his achievements, and confused his career with tales of portents and magical powers. Owen left many See also:bastard See also:children; his legitimate representative in 1433 was his daughter Alice, wife of Sir See also:John Scudamore of Ewyas.
The facts of Owen's See also:life must be pieced together from scattered references in contemporary See also:chronicles and documents; perhaps the most important are Adam of Usk's See also:Chronicle and See also:Ellis's See also:Original Letters. On the Welsh side something is given by the bards Iolo See also:Goch and See also:Lewis Glyn Cothi. For See also:modern accounts consult J. H. See also:Wylie's See also:History of England under Henry IV. (4 vols., 1884–1898); A. C. See also:Bradley's popular See also:biography ; and See also:Professor Tout's See also:article in the See also:Dictionary of National Biography.. (C. L.
End of Article: GLENDOWER, OWEN (c. 1359–1415)
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