Madog ap Llywelyn

Madog ap Llywelyn, Llywelyn ap Madoc also ( † after 1294 ) was a leader of the Welsh rebellion from 1294 to 1295.

He was a son of Llywelyn ap Maredudd, the last Lords of Meirionydd in North West Wales. His father, a descendant of Maredudd ap Cynan had been sold in 1256 by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd of his reign and lived in exile in England, where he received a pension from the king. After the death of his father's death in 1263 Madog continued to live at the royal court. After the victory of the English King Edward I on Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Llywelyn Madog in 1277 sued before the royal court for the surrender of his father's reign, but he only received a land on the island of Anglesey. When in 1294 a revolt broke out against the British rule, Madog be made ​​as a descendant of the old royal house of Gwynedd to the leaders of the insurgents in North Wales and proclaimed himself Prince of Wales. He was supported by Morgan ap Maredudd ap Rhys in Glamorgan and Maelgwn in Cardiganshire.

At the beginning of the uprising was successful. After the sack of the English possessions Angleseys conquered Madog Caernarfon and which is under construction Caernarfon Castle. After they could not conquer Conwy and its castle, he moved his troops to the East where he could beat the Earl of Denbigh at Licoln on November 11. When Edward I arrived with his army in Conwy Castle in December, the Welsh were able to drop his Train. As the river Conwy led flood, the rebels were able to separate the king from his main army and besiege him briefly at low stockpiles in Conwy Castle.

Before the English superiority to Madog moved back to the area of Snowdon. In March, he wanted to lead his forces by Powys, but here he was surprised by English troops under the Earl of Warwick and decisively defeated in Caereinion in the Battle of Maes Moydog. He could only just manage to escape and lived the rest of his army in the mountains of Snowdon as a refugee until he unconditionally John de Havering was found in July or early August 1295. He was taken as a prisoner to London and imprisoned in the Tower. He was not on trial for high treason, his fate is unknown.