Luckly prince Llywelyn and his soldiers – but not sure were able to escape during the night and when they were sure they were safe they made camp for the night. The next day however, tragedy struck one of king Edwards men and they saw Llywelyn, and his solders were resting by the shoreline of a river near to Builth wells, they didn't recognise him, but they knew he was an enemy to the crown.
Llywelyn didn't have time to order a retreat as a solider on horseback ran towards him and killing Llywelyn with his spear. The English soldiers cut Llewelyn's head off and sent it off to king Edward the first in London.
When word got to king Edward, he was ecstatic he was now the ruler of the whole of Cymru which he changed to Wales and England. about Llywelyn death when princess Gwenllian only a few months old, her father Llywelyn, was attacked and killed near Irfon Bridge her uncle ap Gruffudd took Gwenllian in from the knight who has been guarding her all this time, - but one year later, he was captured along with his family at Nanhysglain, a secret hiding place in northern Wales. He was taken to Shrewsbury. Where sadly another member of Gwenllian's family was executed by the greed of king Edward.
Gwenllian along with her female cousins, were all forced into the care of the Gilbertine priory, a convent in Sempringham, Lincolnshire where she spent the rest of her life. She would be protected in the convert as, being the princess of Cymru. She was a big threat to the king, it was only his close ties to Gwenllian that he didn't have the heart to kill her, as he was her mother's cousin.
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The battle of the two dragons
Fantasywhat if on St Davids day when the two dragons fight they didn't die but just were in a sleep like death and there followers brought both dragons to two different caves but the red dragon was wales guardian but only the true royal bloodline of wales...
