Owain Glyndŵr | Free Illustrated Poster Guide

A prince without a grave

In September 1400, a Welsh nobleman with no army and no crown raised his banner against the might of England. Five years later, French troops had landed on Welsh soil, a parliament sat at Machynlleth, and independence looked closer than at any point since Edward I's conquest a century before. Then, as fast as it had risen, it was gone. Owain Glyndŵr disappeared from the historical record entirely. No body. No grave. No certainty. This infographic tells that story in full, from spark to legend.

What this infographic covers

A single-page visual history built for fast, accurate reference:

• Who Glyndŵr really was: a trained lawyer and former servant of the English Crown, not the bandit later myth made him
• The world he lived in: Henry IV's shaky grip on England and a Wales still suffering under the Statute of Rhuddlan
• The rise of the rebellion, year by year, from the spark at Ruthin in 1400 to Bryn Glas, the Tripartite Indenture, and the long fade after 1405
• The Pennal Letter of 1406, Glyndŵr's blueprint for an independent Welsh Church, two universities and a Welsh parliament
• His allies and enemies, including Edmund Mortimer's extraordinary switch from captor's captive to son-in-law
• Five common myths about Glyndŵr, tested against the historical record

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Who this is for

Built for A-level and GCSE history students revising the Glyndŵr Rising, teachers who need a reliable classroom reference, and anyone curious about Wales's last serious bid for independence before the twentieth century.

Licence

Free for personal and educational use. Not for resale or commercial redistribution.