Aberedw is a village in the Welsh county of Powys. The ruins of the medieval Aberedw Castle are nearby.

There is an historical theory by Anthony Edwards that asserts Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native and reigning Prince of Wales, was executed here in 1282, and not at Cilmeri where he is generally said to have been ambushed and killed. The version of events at Aberedw state that Llywelyn was sheltering at Aberedw, in a cave, on December 10th 1282 the night before his death on his way to an appointment with supposed supporters in the Builth area. He was attacked by an English force at the ford of a river. After a brief but violent battle his eighteen retainers, or teulu, were butchered and Llywelyn, mortally wounded, was taken a short way from the river received the last rights and then decapitated, by an English knight. Apparently, this theory is based on local tradition and is strongly supported by many members of the Welsh Nationalist community, notably Cofiwn.[1]

References

A. Edwards, Appointment in Aberdwy; the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, 1992

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