
Medieval History with Dan Jones
Noble Blood
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The First Battle of Wales and Scotland
Before edward the first's reign, the main focus of s territorial expansion or retrenchment from england had been france. He was inspired by legends that arthur whoh'd been a king of the britons and not the english,. starts to look to conquer into wales and scotland. And in wales, i launched this enormous series of campaigns, and particularly to snodonia, which is the very mountainous bid of north west wal typically the heart lands of the native welsh kings. One of the most famous, and one we featured on secrets of raybridge castles, is canavan, which is right up in the northwest tip of wales.
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