Welsh revolt sweeps Gower and Deheubarth

1136

Taking advantage of the Anarchy in England, Welsh princes in the south and west retook castles the Normans had held for a generation. Gruffydd ap Rhys and his sons reoccupied much of their ancestral Deheubarth. The Welsh resurgence would continue under Owain Gwynedd to the north, exploiting English disunity to reclaim territory that had seemed permanently lost to the Norman march lords.