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Modern Wales was written down 600 years before it existed. By a Welshman who vanished into the mountains and was never seen again.
The Pennal Letter has been in Paris since 1406. You can ask to see it. The wax is still red.
Six hundred and twenty years. One vellum scroll. One red wax seal. Still legible. Still in the Archives Nationales.
Owain Glyndŵr was never captured. And no one in Wales ever turned him in. Not a farmer. Not a shepherd. Not a neighbour.
After 1412 he vanished into the mountains. The English crown spent years hunting him. The Welsh kept his secret to the grave.
In 1404, four envoys from every commote in Wales crowned him Prince of Wales. France sent envoys. Spain stood with him. Scotland came too.
The stone hall in Machynlleth is still standing today. You can walk into it.
Glyndŵr demanded two Welsh universities, one in the north, one in the south. 616 years later, the Welsh have them.
Bangor in the north. Aberystwyth and Cardiff in the south. He wrote it down in 1406. It took six centuries to arrive.
Catrin Glyndŵr, his daughter, died in the Tower of London with her children. Her memorial was unveiled in St Swithin's Church Garden, London, in 2001.
A Welsh princess. Two small daughters. Held in the Tower, all of them, until they died. Forgotten for 588 years. Remembered in 2001.
Welsh children were beaten in school for speaking the language their mothers had taught them. The Welsh language is now official. Spoken in the courts. Written into law.
The Welsh Not is gone. Cymraeg is back. It took centuries.
In 1999, the Welsh got their assembly back. In 2020 they named it the Senedd. Every word Owain wrote in 1406 has come true. It took 616 years.
He didn't fail. He kept the vision alive for the future of Wales.
Six hundred years ahead of his time. Wales caught up.
Owain Glyndŵr is one of many. The Welsh have been writing themselves up for centuries.
The laws of Hywel Dda. The Pennal Letter. William Morgan's Welsh Bible. The Senedd in Cardiff Bay. Charter by charter. Parliament by parliament.
These islands are worth writing up.
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Did you know there's a 620-year-old letter in Paris that wrote down what Wales would be? Check it out at proudofus.co.uk/stories/owain-glyndwr. Be Proud Of Us.
Did you know Wales had its own parliament in 1404? The stone hall is still standing in Machynlleth and you can walk into it. Check it out at proudofus.co.uk/stories/owain-glyndwr. Be Proud Of Us.
Did you know Owain Glyndŵr vanished into the Welsh mountains in 1412 and no Welshman ever turned him in? Check it out at proudofus.co.uk/stories/owain-glyndwr. Be Proud Of Us.
Did you know every word a Welshman wrote in 1406 has now come true? It took 616 years. Check it out at proudofus.co.uk/stories/owain-glyndwr. Be Proud Of Us.
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