Medieval history of Wales

kingdom in northwest Wales, 401–1283

langue d'oïl formerly spoken in the British Isles

type of ranged weapon

area of northern Britain ruled by the Brythonic people in the 5-7th century

principality on the British Isles until the 16th century

process which changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British to Germanic

border region between Wales and England

Grade I listed ruined abbey in Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales

style of art produced in the post-Roman history of the British Isles

old form of Welsh: a Brythonic, Insular Celtic language

Celtic language of the High Middle Ages

conflicts between the Normans and the Welsh (1067–1165)

Welsh uprising against English rule, 1400–1415

manor or other centre of an outlying farming estate belonging to a monastery

ruined abbey in Denbighshire, Wales

period of history

right|thumb|Note that some areas are shown as reorganised by the Normans, for hundred (administrative division)|hundred-style purposes, or in a manner that is not chronologically consistent A commote (, sometimes spelt in older documents as , plural , less frequently ) was a secular division of land in Medieval Wales. The word derives from the prefix ("together", "with") and the noun ("home, abode"). The English word "commote" is derived from the Middle Welsh .

thumb|right|[[Great Britain and adjacent islands in the 5th century AD, before the invasion and subsequent founding of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

region of South Wales

a region of medieval Wales (modern Radnorshire)

medieval village in south Wales

former sacred relic believed to be a fragment of the True Cross

thumb|250px|right|Post-Roman Welsh kingdoms. Dunoding is in the north-west, along the southern edge of the Llŷn Peninsula. The modern Anglo-Welsh border is also shown. Dunoding was an early sub-kingdom within the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north-west Wales which existed between the 5th and 10th centuries. According to tradition, it was named after Dunod, a son of the founding father of Gwynedd – Cunedda Wledig – who drove the Irish settlers from the area in c. 460. The territory existed as a subordinate realm within Gwynedd until the line of rulers descended from Dunod expired in c. 925. Following

Perfeddwlad or Y Berfeddwlad was an historic name for the territories in Wales lying between the River Conwy and the River Dee. comprising the cantrefi of Rhos, Rhufoniog, Dyffryn Clwyd and Tegeingl. Perfeddwlad thus was also known as the Four Cantrefs.

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Welsh royal title