Pen Y Bryn The Princes’ Tower :: British History

compose Y Bryn The Princes Tower Wales has long been know as a country of myth and magic. She hides her inexplicables in her hollow hillocks. Pen Y Bryn, The Princes Tower is the latest treasure that has come to light and one of the most fascinating. In 1992 Kathryn and Brian Pritchard Gibson bought what they believed to be a thirty-six acre chicken promote with a 17th century Elizabethan manor mansion house and it has changed their lives dramatically. The rock n roll manor and out buildings are nestled against a fo backup maned hill in Snowdonia. It is just north of Bangor above the shores of Abergwyngregyn, the mouth of the white berate river overlooking the Menai Straights with the mountains forming a protective backdrop behind. Kathryn Gibson says, The locals, it seems, have always called the house Twr Llewelyn, or Llewelyns Tower. They told us thats where the princes lived and that below it theres a Roman settlement and a bronze age fort. When asked how they came by thi s knowledge they always answered, Nain (Grandmother) told me. It was only the academics who ignored this local lore that had been give down for centuries. When you first see the house it is obvious the tower is by far the oldest section. You can also see where windows and doors have been blocked up. in that location is a distinct difference in the stones or the tower and those of the rest of the house but it has only recently been authenticated that the tower does hence date back to Llewelyns time. Shortly after moving in the Gibsons noticed a hollow sound in a circumstances of the living room floor. Pulling up floorboards they quickly discovered secret stairways, hidden rooms, hollow walls, tunnels, tales of princes and prisoners, lovers and war. As Kathryn Gibson says We live in the middle of a giant historical jigsaw puzzle. In fact Pen y Bryn is the lost palace of the Princes Llywelyn, Llywelyn Fawr (the Great) and his grandson, Llywelyn the Last, dating back to 1211. It is where Joan, King Johns daughter and wife of Llywelyn Fawr lived and died, and it holds the key to the tragic story of Gwenllian, the first and blend in true born Princess of Wales. Gwenllian was the only daughter of Llywelyn the Last. Llewelyn had reluctantly been granted the call of Prince of Wales in perpetuity by the English crown at the accordance of Montgomery in 1267.