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In 1267, the Treaty of Montgomery stood as the sole formal recognition by an English monarch, Henry III, of a native Welsh ruler as Prince of Wales, with full authority over his own courts, laws, and succession. That prince was me: Llewelyn ap Gruffudd. I didn’t merely resist conquest, I built a coherent, centralized principality from fragmented lordships, codified Cyfraith Hywel in practice, and forged alliances across the Marches not through subservience but calibrated diplomacy. My court at Abergwyngregyn became a nexus of Welsh law, poetry, and ecclesiastical reform, where bards composed awdlau to sovereignty, not patronage, and where bishops swore oaths to me before Rome’s legate. When Edward I broke the treaty in 1277, it wasn’t just war he declared, it was a rejection of a sovereign legal order rooted in Welsh custom, geography, and memory. My death in 1282 near Builth Wells wasn’t the end of resistance; it was the moment Wales’ constitutional claim was severed, not surrendered.
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