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Colwinston
Colwinston (historically sometimes Colwinstone; cy, Tregolwyn) is both a village and a community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately southeast of the centre of Bridgend and west of the centre of Cardiff. The village is located within of the A48. The population in 2005 was approximately 400 but with recent building development, the population is now estimated at over 600 people. The novelist Agatha Christie was a frequent visitor, and her descendants still live at the former manor house of Pwllywrach. History Archaeological and early historical evidence Bronze Age axe heads discovered on land at Highfield Farm and Iron Age kilns suggest that the area was settled during prehistoric times. The impetus for the development of an agrarian village may have been the local geography: a gentle valley going east to west towards the village, providing a water supply and creating a natural bowl, with a present-day exit leading down Church Lane. Steep slopes in the centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Michael And All Angels Church, Colwinston
St Michael and All Angels Church is a Grade I listed church in Colwinston, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 22 February 1963. The church is said to have been built in 1111. The earliest mention of this parish church comes in the form of an 1141 confirmation of a donation made to the church by Maurice de Londres. The church and all of its possessions were given to the Abbey of Gloucester; this was confirmed circa 1200 when the Bishop of Landaff assigned a resident chaplain to the church. In 1254, the church was listed with a valuation of five marks. By 1291, it was combined with the valuation of Ewenny Priory. The church has many medieval wall paintings. Traces remain on the west wall of the chancel arch, depicting the consecration of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra and the story of the young mother who left her baby in the bathtub to attend the service and whose baby was miraculously saved from death by boiling while his mother attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pwllywrach
Pwll-y-Wrach or Pwllywrach is a historic manor house to the east of Colwinston, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. The house and its Western garden house and Eastern garden house are all listed as Grade II listed buildings in their own right. The novelist Agatha Christie was a frequent visitor to the village and stayed at the house with her daughter Rosalind, son-in-law Hubert, and her only grandchild Mathew used to live at the house; however her other descendants, the Prichard family, still live at the former manor. When Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel, sold the estate to David Thomas "of Bath", the latter built a new manor house, completed around 1770, which would be altered and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The walls are built of rubble with a cement facing and the roof is of Welsh slate. The porch, added in the 19th century, is constructed of Forest of Dean sandstone ashlar Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vale Of Glamorgan
The Vale of Glamorgan ( cy, Bro Morgannwg ), often referred to as The Vale, is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It borders Bridgend County Borough to the west, Cardiff to the east, Rhondda Cynon Taf to the north, and the Bristol Channel to the south. With an economy based largely on agriculture and chemicals, it is the southernmost unitary authority in Wales. Attractions include Barry Island Pleasure Park, the Barry Tourist Railway, Medieval wall paintings in St Cadoc's Church, Llancarfan, Porthkerry Park, St Donat's Castle, Cosmeston Lakes Country Park and Cosmeston Medieval Village. The largest town is Barry. Other towns include Penarth, Llantwit Major, and Cowbridge. There are many villages in the county borough. History The area is the southernmost part of the county of Glamorgan. Between the 11th century and 1536 the area was part of the Lordship of Glamorgan. In medieval times, the village of Cosmeston, near what is today Penarth in the south ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Prichard
Colonel Hubert Cecil Prichard (5 February 1865 – 12 November 1942) was an English cricketer. He was born in Stapleton, Gloucestershire, and played two matches for Gloucestershire in 1896. He later played for Glamorgan. He left the army in 1897 and relocated to Colwinston in Wales, where he resided at Pwllywrach. During the Second World War, he was a major in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and commandant of a prisoner-of-war camp. He was the son of Charles John Collins Prichard (1830 — 1903) and Mary Ann Thomas (1840 — 1898). Prichard married Nora Diana Piers (11 December 1879 — 19 December 1979) in 1905. They had three children: * Lydia Diana Williams (née Prichard; 17 April 1906 — 15 October 1982). She married Elydr Gwyn Williams (20 October 1905 — 8 November 1980). * Major Hubert de Burr Prichard (14 May 1907 — 16 August 1944). He married Rosalind Hicks, only child of the author Agatha Christie, in 1940. His son, Mathew Prichard, was born in 1943. Hubert was kille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glywysing
Glywysing was, from the sub-Roman period to the Early Middle Ages, a petty kingdom in south-east Wales. Its people were descended from the Iron Age tribe of the Silures, and frequently in union with Gwent, merging to form Morgannwg. Name and early history Glywysing is said to be named after Glywys, a real or legendary early monarch, whose name may continue that of the Romano-British ''*Glevenses'', the territory and citizens of '' Glevum'' (modern Gloucester). According to 12th-century sources, after the death of Glywys, the kingdom was divided into seven cantrefs named for his sons: Cydweli, Gwyr, Margam, Penychen, Gwynllwg, Gorfynydd, and another. These were typically ruled together by the head of the family and sometimes treated as appenage subkingdoms. However historians and researchers claim that this is highly inaccurate as Cydweli and Gwyr were highly likely to be independent cantrefs within the Ystrad Tywi ruled by local warlords and were not under any ruli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel
Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel (sometimes spelled Mansell) (died 29 November 1750) was a Welsh peer. He succeeded his brother Christopher Mansel as Baron Mansel of Margam (or "Margram") in 1744. Bussy Mansel married Lady Elizabeth Hervey, the daughter of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, and sister of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, on 17 May 1724. On 13 March 1729, he married Barbara Villiers, daughter of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey William Villers, 2nd Earl of Jersey (c. 1682 – 13 July 1721), known as Viscount Villiers from 1697 to 1711, was an English peer and politician from the Villiers family. Jersey was the son of Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, and his wife ...; she survived him. He had one daughter by his second marriage, Louisa Barbarina Mansel (2 February 1733 – 16 February 1786),UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current. who married George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon, on 16 July 1757. Louisa had no children, and the Margam esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Mansel, 4th Baronet
Sir Edward Mansel, 4th Baronet (ca. October 163714 November 1706) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1660 and 1689. Mansel was the son of Sir Lewis Mansel, 2nd Baronet of Margam and his third wife Lady Elizabeth Montagu, daughter of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester. He inherited the baronetcy of Margam on the death of his brother Henry who died in infancy in around 1640. In 1660, Mansel was elected Member of Parliament for Glamorgan in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Glamorgan in 1670 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679. In 1681 he was re-elected MP for Glamorgan and held the seat until 1689. In 1660 he was appointed a commissioner of militia in Glamorgan and was the Colonel of the Glamorganshire Militia in 1665 and again in 1697. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primogeniture
Primogeniture ( ) is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inheritance, inherit the parent's entire or main estate (law), estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative. In most contexts, it means the inheritance of the firstborn son (agnatic primogeniture); it can also mean by the firstborn daughter (matrilineal primogeniture). Description The common definition given is also known as male-line primogeniture, the classical form popular in European jurisdictions among others until into the 20th century. In the absence of male-line offspring, variations were expounded to entitle a daughter or a brother or, in the absence of either, to another collateral relative, in a specified order (e.g. male-preference primogeniture, Salic primogeniture, semi-Salic primogeniture). Variations have tempered the traditional, sole-beneficiary, right (such as French appanage) or, in the West since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Evans And John Lloyd
Philip Evans and John Lloyd were Welsh Roman Catholic priests. They are among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Philip Evans Philip Evans was born in Monmouth in 1645, and educated at Jesuit College of St. Omer (in Artois, now in France). He joined the Society of Jesus in Watten on 7 September 1665, and was ordained at Liège (now in Belgium) and sent to South Wales as a missionary in 1675. He worked in Wales for four years, and despite the official anti-Catholic policy no action was taken against him. When the Oates' scare swept the country both Lloyd and Evans were caught up in the aftermath. In November 1678 John Arnold, of Llanvihangel Court near Abergavenny, a justice of the peace and hunter of priests, offered a reward of £200 () for his arrest. Despite the manifest dangers Evans steadfastly refused to leave his flock. He was arrested at the home of Christopher Turberville at Sker, Glamorgan, on 4 December 1678. Ironically the posse which arrested him is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recusant
Recusancy (from la, recusare, translation=to refuse) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation. The 1558 Recusancy Acts passed in the reign of Elizabeth I, and temporarily repealed in the Interregnum (1649–1660), remained on the statute books until 1888. They imposed punishments such as fines, property confiscation and imprisonment on recusants. The suspension under Oliver Cromwell was mainly intended to give relief to nonconforming Protestants rather than to Catholics, to whom some restrictions applied into the 1920s, through the Act of Settlement 1701, despite the 1828 Catholic Emancipation. In some cases those adhering to Catholicism faced capital punishment, and some English and Welsh Catholics who were executed in the 16th and 17th centuries have been canonised by the Catholic Church as martyrs of the English Reformation. Definition Today, ''recusant'' applies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Carne
Sir Edward Carne (c. 1500 – 19 January 1561) was a Welsh Renaissance scholar, diplomat and English Member of Parliament. Life history Carne was born around 1500, the second son of Howell Carne of Cowbridge in Glamorgan, and his wife Cicily, the daughter of William Kemys. Carne was descended from Thomas Le Carne, who was the second son of Ithyn, King of Gwent. He was educated at Oxford University, and became principal of Greek Hall. He was made Doctor of Civil Law in 1524. His wife was Anne, a daughter of Sir Edward Mansel of Margam. He had one legitimate son, William, and four daughters. Carne became known as an erudite and eloquent speaker and became attached to the court of Henry VIII. In 1530 he was selected in a legal capacity to represent the embassy of the Earl of Wiltshire, Anne Boleyn's father. Carne profited from the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Glamorgan, where he purchased Ewenny Priory, building a house there after 1545. In 1539 he obtained the lease of Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
