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Welsh Castle Builders: The Savoyard Style
Welsh Castle Builders: The Savoyard Style
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Mae'n amhosibl deall datblygiad cestyll yng ngogledd Cymru heb ddeall arddull arbennig adeiladwyr Savoy o ddwyrain Ffrainc, o ble y daethant a beth oedd eu dylanwad ar hanes Lloegr a Chymru. Mae cyfrol flaengar Arnold Taylor yn archwilio cyfraniad adeiladwyr Savoy i hanes cestyll Cymru.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
It is impossible to understand the development of castles in north Wales without an understanding of the Savoyards, where they came from and their impact on English and Welsh history. The defining work of Arnold Taylor in exploring the Savoyard history of Welsh castles is now many years past, and mostly out of print; it is time for the story to be revisited and expanded upon.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781399085489
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781399085489
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Welsh Castle Builders: The Savoyard Style
- Awdur / Author
- Marshall, John
- Current Price ex VAT
- £25.00
- Current Price inc VAT
- £25.00
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2023-04-07
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Limited
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 272 pages
- Size
- 156 × 234 mm; depth 10 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Bywyd ac Arferion Cymru (yn Saesneg) | EN: Welsh Life and Customs (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Having moved to Switzerland, and qualified as a historian (Masters, Northumbria University, 2016), the author came across the story of the Savoyards in England and engaged in this important history research project. He founded an association to develop Anglo Swiss relations regarding this story, in liaison with Cadw, Château de Grandson, Yverdon and others.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
The Edwardian castles of north Wales were built by a Savoyard master mason, but also by many other artisans from Savoy. What is more extraordinary, is that the constables of Flint, Rhuddlan, Conwy and Harlech were also Savoyards, the Justiciar and Deputy Justiciar at Caernarfon were Savoyards and the head of the English army leading the relief of the sieges of Flint and Rhuddlan was a future Count of Savoy. The explanatory story is fundamentally of two men, the builder of castles, Master James of St George and Justiciar Sir Othon de Grandson, and the relationship of these two men with King Edward I. But it is also the story of many others, a story that begins with the marriage of Alianor de Provence to Edward’s father, Henry III, and the influx of her kinsmen to England, such as Pierre de Savoie.
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