Dolbadarn, Wales, at the foot of Mount Snowdon. Built by the Welsh king Llywelyn ap Iorwerth or Llywelyn the Great starting in AD 1230. Llywelyn (1172-1240) married Joan, daughter of King John of England, but he later became John's enemy and in 1215 he helped the barons force John to issue the Magna Carta. He dominated Wales from 1200 to his death.
Tudor antiquarian John Leland wrote that Llywelyn ap Gruffudd used Dolbadarn's tower to imprison his brother, Owain ap Gruffudd during their struggle for control of the kingdom of Gwynedd in the 1250s. Owain spent 20 years as a captive of his brother, possibly on the upper floor of Dolbadarn's tower. Alas, the documents that Leland relied on must have been lost, since nobody can find a record of this now.
Dolbadarn, Wales, at the foot of Mount Snowdon. Built by the Welsh king Llywelyn ap Iorwerth or Llywelyn the Great starting in AD 1230. Llywelyn (1172-1240) married Joan, daughter of King John of England, but he later became John's enemy and in 1215 he helped the barons force John to issue the Magna Carta. He dominated Wales from 1200 to his death.
Tudor antiquarian John Leland wrote that Llywelyn ap Gruffudd used Dolbadarn's tower to imprison his brother, Owain ap Gruffudd during their struggle for control of the kingdom of Gwynedd in the 1250s. Owain spent 20 years as a captive of his brother, possibly on the upper floor of Dolbadarn's tower. Alas, the documents that Leland relied on must have been lost, since nobody can find a record of this now.
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