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King of England
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Edward the Confessor 1042-66 Background information : During the late 1040's and early 1050's Edward grew fearful of the growing influence of the Earl Godwine of Wessex. In 1051 Edward found a means to disposess and exile Godwine and his family although they were allowed to return and reclaim their lands and titles in 1052, a situation presumably helped by the attacks of Gryffydd ap Llewelyn (1039-63) the King of Gwynned and overlord of most of Wales who that very year defeated the Saxons and the Normans along his east borders and fought a victorious battle near Leominster against Earl Ralph of Hereford. His men sacked Knighton, Kington, Huntington and Old Radnor laying waste to much of the area, as later testified by the Doomsday |
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Book of 1086.
In 1053 the Earl Godwine died and the titles passed on to his
son Harold. Meanwhile Gryffydd was rampaging across the English border,
defeating Earl Ralph again in 1055 and sacking Hereford. He beat the
English once again at Glasbury in 1056. Earl Ralph, the first Earl of
Hereford died in 1057 and Harold Godwine was given the title and imediately
tackled the Welsh problem. He led a campaign into the borders and took
New Radnor. It is possible that he built the first castle there around
this time. More territory followed so that by 1063, when he finaly defeated
Gryffydd (later traitorously murdered by his own men) most of the area
was well under Harolds control. The exact site of that battle remains
a mystery.
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Central Anglo-Welsh Border c.1050 - 60
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