Lesson plan: Overview of Edwardian Conquest Lesson objective: · More Revolts: Why do you think the Welsh revolted in Learners to demonstrate an 1294 -5? understanding of the Edwardian conquest of Wales. Answers: Focus: Slow Conquest 1. The English controlled the South History, Literacy and East of Wales. 2. The three reasons: 1. Wales had lots of small Task – Read and Understand: kingdoms, so the English Hand out iPads with the iBook could only conquer ‘Conquest of Wales’. Alternatively small areas at a time. handout copies of the PDF. The task is 2. The Welsh used guerrilla to read through the book and answer warfare. the questions on each page. To make 3. The Welsh had mountainous lands to hide in. the task easier assign small groups of 3. A tactic using lots of small attacks students with pages to read; instead of one big battle. answering only the questions for these pages. The titles of each page are Llywelyn’s Kingdom given for each group of questions. 1. Prince of Wales. Go through the answers as a class. If Run-up to War students have been assigned pages to 1. Llywelyn would not pay homage read, ask the whole class to fill in all of to Edward I. the answers when going through it as 2. The 2 reasons: a class. The answers to the questions 1. Edward had provided are below. sanctuary for Edward’s brother Dafydd ap Plenary: Gruffudd and the Welsh lord Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn. As a class discuss the questions posed 2. Edward had abducted in the iBook: Llywelyn’s fiancée Eleanor de · Death of Llywelyn: How would Montfort. the people of Wales feel about the death of Llywelyn? Invasion Begins · Edward’s Celebration: How do 1. Edward’s plan was to attack on you think the Welsh felt about three sides: the north east, centre and south. Edward’s celebrations? 2. Dafydd ap Gruffudd. · Boroughs: How do you think 3. Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn. Welsh people felt about being moved from their land? Edward Invades Statute of Wales 1. 9,000. 1. The statue replaced Welsh 2. Edward sent 2,000 foot soldiers to criminal law with English criminal take Anglesey. law. 3. The treaty reduced Llywelyn from 2. The Justice of North Wales. Prince of Wales to Prince of 3. Counties. Gwynedd. Castles of Edward I Wales Revolts 1. The 2 functions: 1. Dafydd ap Gruffudd. 1. A military function to house 2. They saw that the attacks on the soldiers. English had been successful. 2. To scare the Welsh into 3. Edward’s goal was to conquer all submission. of Wales. Boroughs Death of Llywelyn 1. Two reasons the Welsh resented 1. The Battle of Orewin Bridge. boroughs: 2. The 2 stories: 1. English immigrants were 1. Llywelyn was killed by a given special privileges. knight called Stephen de 2. Welsh people could not live Frankton. He only in the boroughs. discovered that it was Llywelyn after he had killed More Revolts him. 1. Two reasons: 2. Llywleyn was lured into a 1. He was disappointed he trap by the English and had not been rewarded chased into a wood better for his support where he was killed. of Edward in the conquest 3. Llywelyn’s head was sent to the of Wales. Tower of London to be put on 2. He was fed up of the Justice display above the gates. of South Wales interfering with his rule. Wales Conquered 2. The three lords: 1. Dafydd was captured and 1. Madog ap Llywelyn in the sentenced to death. north. 2. Morgan ap Maredudd in Edward’s Celebration Glamorgan. 1. Edward travelled across Wales to 3. Maelgwn ap Rhys in the celebrate his victory. South West. 2. Edward wanted to celebrate his victory and show he had completely conquered all of Wales. 3. His son Edward of Caernarvon. Conquest Slow Conquest 1. What parts of Wales did the English control before the Edwardian conquest? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 2. List three reasons it was difficult to conquer all of Wales? 1.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 3. What is guerrilla warfare? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Llywelyn’s Kingdom 1. What was Llywelyn ap Gruffudd officially recognised as in 1267? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Conquest Run-up to War 1. Why did Edward I refuse to recognise Llywelyn as Prince of Wales? ______________________________________________________________ 2. What 2 reasons did Llywelyn have for not paying homage to Edward I? 1.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Invasion Begins 1. What was Edward’s plan to attack Llywelyn? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 2. Who helped the English attack north Wales? ______________________________________________________________ 3. Who helped the English attach central Wales? ______________________________________________________________ Conquest Edward Invades 1. How many soldiers in Edward’s army were Welsh? ______________________________________________________________ 2. How did Edward surround Llywelyn? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 3. What did the Treaty of Aberconway do? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Wales Revolts 1. Who started the revolt? ______________________________________________________________ 2. Why did more Welsh leaders join the revolt? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 3. What was Edward’s goal in 1282? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Conquest Death of Llywelyn 1. What was the name of the battle on 11th December 1282? ______________________________________________________________ 2. What 2 stories are there about Llywelyn’s death? 1.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 3. What happened to Llywelyn’s head? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Wales Conquered 1. What happened to Dafydd ap Gruffudd on 21st June 1282? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Conquest Edward’s Celebration 1. What did Edward do between September and December 1282? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 2. Why did Edward hold celebrations? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 3. Who did Edward make Prince of Wales in 1301? ______________________________________________________________ Statute of Wales 1. What did the Statute of Wales change? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 2. Who replaced the Welsh Princes in North Wales? ______________________________________________________________ 3. What new system was introduced to Wales? ______________________________________________________________ Conquest Castles of Edward I 1. What 2 functions did castles have? 1.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Boroughs 1. List 2 reasons why Welsh people resented boroughs? 1.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Conquest More Revolts 1. List 2 reasons why Rhys ap Maredudd rebelled? 1.____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________