WebThe Welsh Marches (Welsh: Y Mers) is an imprecisely defined area along the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom.The precise meaning of the term has varied at different periods. The English term Welsh March (in Medieval Latin Marchia Walliae) was originally used in the Middle Ages to denote the marches between England …

WebThe Welsh Seal (Welsh: Y Sêl Gymreig) is a seal used for Wales Independent Wales. Seals were used by the native Princes of Wales during Welsh independence. Llywelyn the Great. Seal of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (d. 1240). On Llywelyn the Great' (Llywelyn ap Iorwerth) seal is dated to 1240. Llywelyn is pictured armoured in surcoat holding a sword in ...

WebThe Welsh Marches line (Welsh: Llinell y Mers), known historically as the North and West Route, is the railway line running from Newport in south-east Wales to Shrewsbury in the West Midlands region of England by way of Abergavenny, Hereford and Craven Arms and thence (by some definitions) to Crewe via Whitchurch.The line thus links the south of …

WebWales (Welsh: Cymru ()) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2021 of 3,107,500 and has a total area of 20,779 km 2 (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,680 miles (2,700 km) of coastline …

WebMarches were territorial organisations created as borderlands in the Carolingian Empire and had a long career as purely conventional designations under the Holy Roman Empire.In modern German, "Mark" denotes a piece of land that historically was a borderland, as in the following names: Later medieval marches. Nordmark, the "Northern March", the Ottonian …

WebOwain Glyndŵr was born in 1354 in the northeast Welsh Marches (near the border between Wales and England) to a family of Uchelwyr – nobles descended from the pre-conquest native Welsh royal dynasties – in traditional Welsh society. This group moved easily between Welsh and English societies and languages, occupying important offices for the …

WebA march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band.In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John Philip Sousa and the martial hymns of the late 19th century.

WebThe South Wales Valleys (Welsh: Cymoedd De Cymru) are a group of industrialised peri-urban valleys in South Wales.Most of the valleys run north–south, roughly parallel to each other. Commonly referred to as "The Valleys" (Welsh: Y Cymoedd), they stretch from Carmarthenshire in the west to Monmouthshire in the east; to the edge of the pastoral …

WebIncursions from the English and Normans also amplified divisions between the kingdoms. In the 12th century, Norman king Henry II of England exploited differences between the three most powerful Welsh kingdoms, Gwynedd, Powys, and Deheubarth, allowing him to make great gains in Wales. He defeated and then allied with Madog ap Maredudd of Powys in …

WebRanulph I de Mortimer (Ralf, Ralph, Raoul de Mortemer) (born before c. 1070–died in/after 1104) was a Marcher Lord from the Montgomery lands in the Welsh Marches (border lands between Wales and England).In England, he was Lord of Wigmore in Herefordshire.In Normandy, he was the Seigneur of St. Victor-en-Caux.Ranulph was the founder of the …