Sir John Wogan, Chancellor of St David's and Lord Justiciar of Ireland, buys out the remaining
Fitzgerald interests in
Castlemorris and Priskilly and returned them to the
diocese of St David's.
King
Edward II of England, as guardian of the three heiresses of the estate of Gilbert de Clare, appoints Payn de Turberville of Coity as administrator.
3 February – Widowed heiress
Elizabeth de Clare is abducted from Bristol Castle by Theobald II de Verdun, whom she subsequently marries. A few months later, she is widowed for a second time.
March – In a brief battle at Castell Mor Graig, Llywelyn Bren and his men are forced to break off their six-week siege of Caerphilly.
March – Despenser War: King Edward II travels to Gloucester and calls on the Marcher Lords to join him; Mortimer and Hereford decline. Edward marches on to Bristol, and repeats his call for the Marcher Lords to convene with him there. They again decline.[3]
May – Despenser War:
Newport,
Cardiff and
Caerphilly are seized by Roger Mortimer in an intense eight-day campaign. Mortimer and the Earl of Hereford then set about pillaging
Glamorgan and Gloucestershire, before marching north to join Lancaster at
Pontefract Castle.
16 November – King
Edward II is captured by rebel forces at Pantybrad in South Wales. His favourite
Hugh Despenser the Younger is also captured and imprisoned; ten days later he is tried and executed for treason. Hugh's wife,
Eleanor de Clare, is placed in confinement in the Tower of London.
9 August –
Holt Castle surrenders without a fight to the soon-to-be
Henry IV of England and the royal treasure moved here from the Tower of London over the previous year by Richard is recovered.
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^Pettifer, Adrian, Welsh Castles: a Guide by Counties. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000. p.60.
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abWeir, Alison. (2006) Queen Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England. London: Pimlico Books.
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^Costain, Thomas Bertam. (1962) The Three Edwards. London: Doubleday. pp.196-97
^Ian Mortimer, The Greatest Traitor, Vintage Books, 2010.
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^Birch, Walter de Gray, 'A History of Neath Abbey derived from original documents ... with some account of the castle and town of Neath [and] notices of the other monasteries of Glamorganshire' (Neath, 1902) pp. 125-126