• pbhj@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Gwynedd tried to do over the English crown when they were already paying fealty, they quickly killed enough people across the rest of the Welsh counties to take control of most of them and set themselves against the English Crown, refusing to pay. So the English armies had to come and sort them. Gwynedd’s actions effectively subdued Wales … why anyone in the rest of Wales thinks this meant Wales was unified I’m not sure. Falling in behind the Northeners [of Wales], who it seems had Irish/Norse as their leaders, rather than falling in behind England when it was those North Walians that came around killing all our people … it’s weird to me.

    Also, Welsh people ruled Britain (the Tudors), which is more than any English people {with long-established families from mainland Britain} have done since before the Norman Conquest. Again I don’t get how the Scots and the Welsh moan about the English when both of them had a good go of ruling Britain (since 1066) and no English people have.

    Anyway, if you’re going to add this Welsh flag, which is really not old, why would you not first add the flags of Britons in the counties that were combined before the Normans took full control - Northumbria or Wessex or wherever. Mind you, you might still end up with a dragon/wyvern (viper).