Abergavenny Castle
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Abergavenny Castle is a ruined castle in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, established by the Norman lord Hamelin de Balun c. 1087. It was the site of a massacre of Welsh noblemen
Interior of the surviving curtain wall and four-storey tower, looking west from inside the castle grounds
Curtain wall of Abergavenny castle, 2008
J. Hassell, Abergavenny Castle, drawing and engraving, 1807.
The refurbished 19th-century square hunting lodge "keep" now houses the Abergavenny Museum.
Glyndŵr rebellion
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The Glyndŵr rebellion was a Welsh rebellion led between 1400 and c. 1416 by Owain Glyndŵr against the Kingdom of England during the Late Middle Ages. During the rebellion's height, Owain exercised con
Abergavenny Castle
…by the Norman lord Hamelin de Balun c. 1087. It was the site of a massacre of Welsh noblemen in 1175, and was attacked during the early 15th-century Glyndŵr Rising. William Camden, the 16th-century antiquary, said that the castle "has been oftner stain'd with the infamy of treachery, than any other castle in Wales…
Glendower by A.C.Michael
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John Peter Simon King Henry IV, Part I, Act III, Scene I, The Archdeacon of Bangor^s House in Wales Hotspur B1977.14.20012 Yale Center for British Art
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