1400 WELSH NOBLE DEFIES ENGLISH AND IS PROCLAIMED PRINCE
What began as a land dispute between neighbouring rivals escalated into a decade-long rebellion to end English rule in Wales
Since Wales was violently conquered in 1283, the Welsh had waited for one of their own to rise up and throw off English rule. This need was never more desperate than at the end of the 14th century, when the sympathetic and admired King Richard II was deposed, being replaced by the strict, unyielding Henry IV, who wasted no time in insulting the Welsh by naming his son Hal as Prince of Wales.