Campaign of Henry III. after Ceri

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The campaign of Henry III. after Ceri (also Campaign after Keri or Anglo-Welsh War of 1228 ) was a military conflict between the Kingdom of England and several Welsh principalities, which were under the leadership of Prince Llywelyn from Iorwerth of Gwynedd . The English advance into Mid Wales ended in failure.

In April 1228, the young King Heinrich III. his Justiciar Hubert de Burgh Montgomery Castle for administration. In order to expand the English position, de Burgh had a path cut into the densely forested area south of Montgomery in August that year, which could be used as cover by attacking Welsh. The Welsh responded by attacking the workers, driving them back to Montgomery Castle and eventually beginning the siege of the castle. The king then hurried to Wales with a hastily assembled army and horrified the castle on September 3rd. He then called his feudal army to Montgomery, which eventually comprised the 120 knights and soldiers of the royal household, around 425 knights and other infantry. With this army the king moved south around September 25th into the valley of Ceri , about five kilometers east of today's Newtown . There they destroyed a Cistercian settlement that is said to have given shelter to rebel Welsh people. Instead of the monastery, the English began building a castle. The campaign, which was only half-heartedly prepared, turned out to be a complete failure. Prince Llywelyn from Iorwerth took over the leadership of the fight against the English himself. In the densely wooded area, the English supplies were repeatedly attacked by the Welsh, so that the English soon suffered from supply problems. In one of these skirmishes, the Marcher Lord William de Braose was wounded in captivity, from which he was only released in the following year after paying a large ransom. Finally, an armistice was signed in October 1228. Llywelyn ab Iorwerth and other princes paid homage to the king, while in return the king gave up the unfinished castle and retreated back to England. The place of the castle destroyed by the Welsh was named after the Justiciar Hubert's Folly , it was probably the construction of Old Hall Camp which started as a ring wall .

literature

  • Jack C. Spurgeon: Hubert's folly. The abortive case of the Kerry campaign, 1228 . In: John R. Kenyon, Kieran Denis O'Conor: The Medieval Castle in Ireland and Wales: Essays in Honor of Jeremy Knight . Four Courts, Dublin 2003. ISBN 1-85182-726-9 , pp. 107-120

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel Prestwich: Plantagenet England, 1225-1360 . Clarendon, Oxford 2005. ISBN 1-4294-7013-5 , p. 146
  2. ^ Rees R. Davies: The Age of Conquest. Wales 1063-1415 . Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 1991, ISBN 0-19-820198-2 , p. 298
  3. ^ CJ Spurgeon: The Castles of Montgomeryshire . In: Montgomery Collections , 59 (1966), p. 44