when i wake her up for school, ill show her that new one you just posted.
Cool,
To keep on topic, this castle was the command centre for the estuary, our local castles are all about 4 miles from each other and are all accessible by the public. As a resident i am entitled to free entry and i occasionally go there just to soak up the atmosphere.
from wiki ( have fun pronouncing the Welsh names....
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The original castle was established by 1116 as the castle of Robert Courtemain, who is recorded to have entrusted its care to the Welshman Bleddyn ap Cedifor. The castle also was the meeting place of
Henry II of England with
Rhys ap Gruffudd in 1171-1172, where they agreed a treaty of peace. When
Henry II of England died in 1189 the castle along with
St Clears and
Llansteffan were seized by
Rhys ap Gruffudd of
Deheubarth in 1189, Laugharne Castle may have been burnt down at this time.
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The Castle was rebuilt by the
Normans and in 1215 was captured by
Llywelyn the Great in his campaign across South Wales. By 1247 Laugharne was granted to the de Brian family. In 1257 Guy De Brian was captured at Laugharne Castle by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and the castle destroyed. It was in Laugharne in 1403 that
Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion stalled. Perhaps lulled into complacency, he was tricked by an ambush and lost 700 men. When a local soothsayer then warned him to leave the area or be captured, he retreated. After this the rebellion petered out under the weight of greater English numbers, and by 1415, Owain Glyndŵr had disappeared, fading into myth. In 1584,
Elizabeth I of England granted Laugharne to
Sir John Perrott, said to have been the illegitimate son of
Henry VIII.
[1]
During the Civil War, Laugharne was captured by Royalists in 1644, the Parliamentary forces of Major-General Rowland Laugharne attacked the castle in 1644. After a weeklong siege in which much of the castle was damaged by cannon fire, the Royalist garrison finally surrendered. The castle was slighted to prevent any further use. It was left as a romantic ruin during the 18th century, and around the start of the 19th century the outer ward was laid with formal gardens.
Maybe my intelligence degraded... 
