A Brief History Of Harlech Castle - Harlech Castle, Gwynedd Wales 

i went to high school right under that castle in the 90's, looked at it through the window everyday, amazing place

I’m happy you’re doing all the Welsh castles, some of them I didn’t even know existed. I can’t wait to see if you cover other castles in this area.

Absolutely stunning, thank you 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

Harlech Castle is one that I’ve not visited. Need to make an effort to go there.

One of my favourite history channels 👏🏼x

Love your content! You always make My day 😊😊😊❤❤❤

My first holiday memory is of Harlech, in a caravan in a field with gorse bushes and lovely chemical toilets, owned by a farmer Jones (Jones the camp😏) I remember flying a blue and red canvas kite with a girl named Molly.

Great video! Keep up the great content!

Your castle videos are always interesting! Can't wait For Elizabeth II the Magnanimous.

Can you do the whole French royalty line next?

Thankyou. I want to go here

Hey brief history! I live in N.Yorkshire. If you ever need footage of castles around here I would love to help you out

Edward was a genious

I like the fact you're getting much more comfortable in your voice. It makes everything much more smooth. Now if you could only do something about that awful intro/exit music...

In Welsh, Dav-ith.

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Nothing to do with Ireland also , you have the Marcher Lordships in the South it was actually in Herefordshire Shropshire Cheshire and Worcestershire in the EAST, you have forgotten to say that the Name Welsh is a English Germanic Word as is Wales, Cymru, which was once the Land of all the People of Britain, we call England Lloegr which means Lost Lands, the Scots are from Ireland and are mixed with Saxon and Vikings the Cymru are Brythonic Celts. Owain Glyndwr was no Welsh Rebel he was of Royal Lineage going back over a 1000 Years, the Cecil Cedric Percy Bruce Stuart Talbot and many other Families are of Cymric descent going back to the Kings of Rhedeg Ystrad Clwyd Glamorgan and other areas of Britain Eddynt Elfet Elfed Cwrnwy Glwyr ( Gloucester), which are of much earlier lineage going back to the Bronze Age, the French areas of Western France and Northern France and Belgium were also of Brythonic Celtic peoples, Bretons and Pictones of Western France and Belgae and Parisi of Northern France, the Cymric ( Welsh) Language was spoken in all these areas and Bretons certainly spoke it, so to the Gallois of Northern France and Belgium, the name Gallois was given to the Cymric speakers of this area by the Frankish and Germanic invaders of Western Europe, it was still spoken in some areas up till the early 20th Century and these peoples are proud French and Belgian today but are also proud to be Gallois, the place names show the Ancestry, Ghent Bruges Ypres Calais Paris Lille Arras Mons Morlais Falaise Clais Rennes Brest Carentan Lorient Caen Nantes Gironde Rhone same as ( Rhein Ronda) and Rhondda Rhonddu ( Cymric) the Plantagenet were murderous Bastards, and Bastards they were, for they also were part Cymric and were NOT English, but Norse Frankish and Flemish, the English are a mixture of Many Germanic peoples, whereas the Cymru were of Celtic ancestry with a very very long lineage. The Tudors and Stuarts were Kings and Queens of England but had their ancestry much further back to Powys Glamorgan and Gwynedd, both these Families spoke the Cymric Language and the Tudors spoke it in court, the First Kings of England were also part Cymric certainly Alfred and Edgar had British ( Cymric ) blood. and Pre Plantagenet there were Certainly Cymric Kings of England The Cymric ( Welsh) Language is the only complete existing Celtic Language spoken today, meaning that a person today would be able to talk with his Ancestors of more than 2000 Years ago, the Language is protected by Unesco. This Language is very old at least 5-6000 Years old. Britons and Gaels are Cousins, Gaels being people of Irish Descent, but the Gaelic you here today was not the same as the Gaelic of 1500 Years ago before the Saxons and Vikings entered Ireland, their influence was to virtually kill off the Gaelic, forcing them to the Western extremes, there were Britons in Ireland and there were Gaels in the Cymru, we traded and fought together for Centuries not as enemies but as brothers we travelled across Europe together, long before the Romans, in great movements, we were with the Etruscans when they fought the Romans in the Punic wars, we were in Turkey in Anatolia and Cappadoccia the Land of Galatea was Celtic it bears the Brythonic names today Gaer Ankyra ( yn Caerau) both names mean Fortress and there are Hundreds of Celtic Burial mounds there, we know that Celts fought with the Spartans, whom many believe today to have been Celts like the Macedonians. Certainly a person whom is part of my family History Sir Arthur Evans ( Knossos) a Archaeologist and Diarist wrote of his travels and works in Turkey as well and even knew the area of Troy where he thought that the names of Trojans were more Celtic than Greek, Paris Patroclus are two in particular, but there are many others. Our Cymric History is British History for we are the Britons , whose language was spoken from Ancient times throughout the Island of Prydein ( Brittania) which the Ancient Greeks first noted as traders, nearly 1000 BC, when they came to these shores, certainly Greek and Etruscan ( Pre Roman) pottery and coinage has been found particularly in South Wales at Llansteffan Caerfyrddin ( Carmarthen) and Barri ( Barry) . These Castles are not Playthings they were places of Misery and Death, we have Hundreds of them in our Land, Edward Longshanks was NOT the only evil Norman King there were plenty of them, our Language was forbidden to be spoken on ENGLISH lands by the Normans, later even up to the 1960's these laws still stood, our language was Eradicated in England to such an extreme that only small enclaves of Farmers were still able to speak in to the 1960's . The Language was and still is under attack from the English, but it will not die, in the early 1900's 95% of the Cymru spoke the Language today it is 45% but we have more than Two Million speakers worldwide, with large Cambrian societies in the US Canada Australia Europe South Africa Argentina ( Pategonia) and even in Russia ( Donetsk and Rostov) there are a small amount of speakers. The real History of Britain is everywhere for us Cymroggion, for the names of all the Capitals of Britain have Cymric Celtic History, London comes from the Brythonic Celtic ( Welsh) Llundain ( Place of shallow lakes) Edinburgh is named after the last British Cymric king Eddynt Caereddynt, our Capital today is Cardiff which is the Norman way of saying Caerdydd meaning a day castle for it was also a very large Roman Fort, the old Celtic name for most of this area was Dinas ( a Place of Power) . We had a Parliament before the English. Today there is a major Archaeological Excercise underway they are opening and surveying more than 167 British Cymric Kings from 1000BC to 1100 AD buried in Britain, Southern Ireland , Brittany, Normandy and the Pas De Calais . they are trying to trace at least another 120 Kings and Queens, we call them Brenin a'r Frenhinas for in Celtic Society the Woman was Treated the same as a Man,with love and tenderness, also Children and Old and Disabled were cared for with respect. This was also so in all Celtic areas. Diolch yn fawr, i ti, pob hwyl, Bore da.

No woman built them.