Owen Glendower (d. c. 1416)

Descended from princely Welsh stock, and declaring himself Prince of Wales, he became leader of a Welsh uprising against the rule of the English king, Henry IV, in 1401. The rebellion ultimately petered out; neither the place nor the date of Glendower’s death is known.

Bibliographic References:

R. R. Davies, Conquest, Coexistence and Change: Wales, 1063–1415 (Oxford, 1987); Llinos Smith, ‘Glyn Dwr, Owain (c.1359–c.1416)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10816.

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