THE TRUE NATIONAL FLAG OF CYMRU.

 

THE LAUNCH OF THE SIX NATIONS RUGBY TOURNAMENT 2018 SIGNALS THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER YEAR OF SUPPORTING CYMRIC TEAMS AS THEY COMPETE IN NUMEROUS SPORT EVENTS IN CYMRU AS WELL AS AROUND THE GLOBE; WHAT FLAG SHOULD PATRIOTIC CYMRIC SUPPORTERS EMBRACE AND WAVE IN SUPPORT OF THE CYMRIC TEAM DURING THIS SIX NATIONS AS WELL AS AT ALL OTHER SPORT EVENTS - AND WHY?

 

Most Cymric supporters would answer the above question with..."the Welsh dragon flag of course" as they have been brainwashed and cultivated to believe that the Welsh dragon flag is the flag of Cymru. After all, this is the flag that they have seen being mainly being flown in Cymru for as long as they can remember, be it alongside the 'Union Rag' or by itself so, let's examine the history of the Welsh dragon flag or, as we have renamed it, the 'Tudor Rag' as the 'officially' accepted flag of Cymru and let's kick this myth into touch once and for all so that we can begin the process of being a proud and strong nation once again and not one weakened by the manipulation of Cambro-Brits living amongst us whose only interest is in preserving their own greedy ambitions for status and power.

 
So, let's begin at the beginning, It is believed that the Cymry had inherited the red dragon from the Romans who used a dragon emblem on their pennants and standards during their occupation of Britain.  These Draco standards were used between 250 and 400 AD, and were typically carried by cavalry units. They consisted of a hollow beast's head, made from metal, with a windsock-style cloth tail descending from the rear of the head. (see pic below)

They, the Romans, had themselves,  borrowed this custom from the Indians and Parthians and many Celtic and Geramanic tribes had also adopted the use of the mythical creature in heraldic form.

 In fact, the Romans did not have a monopoly on the use of dragons as symbols at all, dragon-like iconography has been found on objects from prehistoric times onwards all over the continent.


The Romans came, conquered and in due course left to make way for new invasions by Saxons and the Normans. They had also adopted use of the dragon standard. Richard I (the Lionheart) took a dragon standard to the Third Crusade in 1191. and, indeed, the English are known to have carried the dragon in their campaigns against the Cymry - such as in Eryri (Snowdonia) by Henry lll in 1245.  He also installed the dragon standard at Westminster Abbey, and it was used by his son Edward I, and later still by Edward III at the battle of Crécy (1346) and again by Henry V (Owain Glyndŵr and the Cymry's arch enemy) at  the battle of Agincourt (1415).  In 1138 it was also the Scottish royal standard. 

It was only following the image of St George slaying the dragon becoming increasingly popular in England, after this legend had come over from the Near East where it originated, that the English abandoned the dragon flag.

To find the earliest traces of a Cymric connection to 'a' dragon, we will need to study the Cymric language poetry of the early Cymric bards produced in the sixth century, not an easy task, as medieval Cymraeg differs greatly to the language as we know it today but, The word 'draig' (dragon) appears in much of this old poetry and according to medieval experts on the work, the bards are not always referring to the mythological creature, but rather, to a human “leader”.  The medieval poetry experts believe that this repetitive use of the word 'draig' suggests a strongly developed metaphor of fierce warriors as dragons.

For example, The poets would write about a 'deliverer' a 'Mab Darogan' who would free the Cymry from the English yoke, and would describe him as 'Draig' and although there are references in some of this poetry to the use of dragon standards by Cymric Kings, such as 7th century Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon, the above illustrates that the dragon was widely used all over the continent and  is no more Cymric than Mickey Mouse is!

The bardic discription of the colour of the dragon as and when it was used in Cymru would vary, some would describe it as 'aur'  for example and Geoffrey of Monmouth the Cymric historiographer from the 12th century had written about king Arthur bearing a golden dragon (not red) standard in battle and heraldic poetry recorded Owain Gwynedd as having a Golden Dragon flag so, bearing in mind that we know that Owain Glyndŵr had used a golden dragon as his battle flag,  I would suggest that Owain, being well educated and well versed in the history and in the legends of many countries as well as his own, had decided on the use of this flag as a battle flag to be flown in battles alongside his royal standard of 'Four Lions Rampant (which I will be coming back to in due course) in order to explicitly connect him with the 'Mab Darogan' legacy and the tradition of carrying a Golden Dragon Standard in battle as was recorded by the early bards and Geoffrey of Monmouth.

The 'Welsh' dragon on a field of green and white flag as we know it today, originated with the Tudor dynasty. Henry Tudor was of Cymric ancestory, he was the great grandson of Maredudd ap Tudur (who had fought alongside Owain Glyndŵr) and grandson of Owen ap Maredudd ap Tudur who had dropped the 'Ap Maredudd'  and changed the Cymric spelling of Tudur to Tudor so that he could 'get on' in the English Court.

Following the death of Henry V of England, his widow, the Queen dowager Catherine of Valois had secretly married Owen Tudor and he was granted the rights of an Englishman in the Parliament of May 1432. their first son, Edmund, was born at Much Hadham Palace, Hertfordshire and this Edmund married Margaret Beaufort, the daughter of the first Duke of Somerset. Yes... these are the Beauforts that had been given Owain Glyndŵr's land and much other Cymric land for their loyalty to the English crown. Both Edward and his brother Jasper were doing extremely well in the English Courts by this time, they had been  recognised officially as legitimate half-brothers of King Henry 6th and the statutory disabilities attributed with being considered Welsh were removed. Throughout 1452 and 1453, they were given large monetary grants from the King, while Edmund was also given property in Westmorland and Lancashire. He also ran a profitable estate and invested in the wool industry based out of Boston, Lincolnshire and was also granted the medieval palace of Baynard's Castle, near to the river Thames in London. This family had long ditched their Cymric roots and their sole interest in Cymru was in ensuring that the King's authority was enforced there.

Edmund and Margaret had produced a son, Henry Tudor, but Edmund had died of an illness two months before Henry was born and as a result, he was placed under the guardianship of his uncle Jasper, Edmund's brother. Henry 'sort of'' had claim to the English throne due to the inheritance of the Plantagenet blood through his mother Margaret Beaufort so for this reason he was sent to France for protection from enemies and returned as a young man to fight his claim to the English throne in what became known as the Wars of the Roses.

Henry and his advisers saw the advantage of resurrecting Henry's Cymric ancestory along with the old Merlin prophecy that a "reedemer' would arise to win back the "crown of the Britons" in order to rally the Cymry to Henry's cause, and a red dragon was incorporated into Henry's bannerette of the Cross of St George. He marched his troops under this bannerette through Cymru to Bosworth as a means of rallying Cymric support. 

 

The involvement of Welsh soldiers played a significant part in Henry’s victory at Bosworth and following the victory, it was recorded that one of the three standards presented by Henry at St Paul's Church was a red dragon on a green and white field. Let's again examine this flag, It is Interesting that Henry and his advisors had decided to use a 'red dragon' and not 'gold' as described in many of the old cywyddau and by Geoffrey of Monmouth in relation to the story of Arthur and the prophecy concerning a 'return of a 'Mab Darogan' (son of prophecy) Would this have been because the Plantagenet rose was red and they wanted to emphasise that colour above all else? Then in regards to the green and white field, many believe that this was chosen to represent the Welsh leek but, in fact, the white and green were the livery colours of his French grandmother, Catherine of Valoes.

 

Following his coronation, Henry rewarded some of the prominent Welshmen that had supported him in the war with government posts in London but nothing changed for the rest of the Cymry back in Cymru. The nation remained under the occupation of England and the people still suffered oppression and exploitation at the hands of English barons and lords that had been given Cymric estates in exchange for their loyalty to the English kings that had ruled since the end of the War of Independence of Tywysog Owain Glyndŵr

 

Henry VII died in 1509 and his son, Henry VIII, succeeded him to the throne and between 1536 and 1543 he enforced the Acts of union on Cymru. In the words of these acts of Parliament... "...the dominion, principality, and country of Wales justly and righteously is and ever hath been incorporated, annexed, united, and subject to and under the imperial crown of this realm as a very member and joint of the same..."

 
These Acts insisted upon 'English' as the official language of government, administration and the law within Cymru, giving great power to the English officials and the landed gentry to exploit and mis-rule in order to feed their greed for wealth and power from that point right up to the present day - and as for the dragon that had appeared on the tail of the St George's bannerette at Bosworth, that had served its purpose and would probably  have faded back into the shadows of bardic history if it had not been for the Cambro-Brits of the 18th,19th and early 20th century who would see advantages in airing it from time to time until finally, in 1807 after the union of the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland, it was declared that 'a red dragon passant' standing on a mound should be the King's badge for Wales'." 

This development encouraged other 'Cambro Brits' to promote it further and also campaign to have it incorporated into the Union Jack! A prominent figure in all this was the arch traitor Lloyd George, who sent the murderous Black and Tans to Ireland and who further can be held responsible, alongside his big pal Winston Churchill, for a bloody civil war and the loss of thousands of lives in that Celtic nation when he tricked the Irish to sign the 1922 Treaty of Partition. Prior to him committing the aforementioned hideous crimes against fellow Celts, this arch 'Cambro-Brit' had been given the task to orchestrate the Investiture of another English Prince of Wales in Caernarfon Castle in 1911, and he did so with 'grovelling' gusto, with symbolisms such as the 'Tudor Rag', daffodils and 'naff leeks' draping the castle in abundance.  

In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II decreed that the royal badge for Wales should be augmented, and to its red dragon there was added the motto 'Y ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn'.

This augmented badge was placed on a white flag and flown over government buildings on appropriate occasions. But, in 1958, the Gorsedd of Bards, who's Registrar at the time was none other than Camro-Brit the bard Cynan, who was as passionate in his love for the English monarchy as he was for 'yr hen iaith', expressed the wish that the Red Dragon flag be recognised as the national flag of Wales instead of this augmented badge. Then, in February 1959, the Queen commanded that in future 'only the Red Dragon on a green and white flag should be flown on government buildings in Wales and in London where appropriate'. The augmented badge, however was to continue in use for other purposes, i.e. for its display as a badge in accordance with established heraldic procedure.

 
A hidden Agenda?

Cynan, had a position as 'Reader of Cymric language plays' for the Lord Chamberlain one of the top officials of the English Monarchy - who worked from St James's Palace, London. Cynan's role included advising on which of the Cymric language plays could be licensed and which should be censored!  He was therefore in a position to be able to advise the Lord Chamberlain of much else of what was going on in Cymru. During the Commonwealth Games which had been held in Caerdydd in 1958, the Queen, via a message delivered by her husband, had announced that her son Charles was to be invested as 'Prince of Wales' at Caernarfon Castle in 1969. Cynan was well aware of incidents taking place in Cymru where the Union Jack had been taken down - such as in Caernarfon castle in 1932 and at the National Eisteddfod in Pwllheli in 1955 and in all probability had advised the palace that trouble could erupt at any time in Cymru, reminding the officials, no doubt,  of the burning of the Bombing School at Penyberth in 1936, the bombings in the 1950's, as well as the removal of 'Union Rags',  suggesting that they make the 'Tudor Rag' the official national flag of Wales so that it could be mass produced and flown at Caernarfon Castle to appease the Cymry - arguing that flying nothing but 'Union Rags' would be the equivalent of  waving a red rag in a bull's face? Interesting to note that this arch Cambro-Brit, along with a large number of other 'Cymraeg' speaking Cambro-Brits, was on the planning commitee of the 1969 Investiture and that he was knighted a week after that 'great charade' had taken place!

So, taking into consideration the tainted history of the 'Tudor Rag' that has been foisted on us by 'grovelling Cambro-Brits that have been - and still are, hell bent on keeping us subjected to England, I personally, do not want to be associated with it or what it 'really' represents. The Cymry of the late 15th century were 'duped' to follow a version of it to fight at Bosworth because they believed they were following a Cymric Mab Darogan that was fighting for their freedom, and the Cymry of today are still 'duped' to embrace a flag that is associated with a 'brood of traitors' that had, following the end of the War of Independence of Prince Owain Glyndŵr, eagerly turned their backs on Cymru in order to 'grovel' their way to wealth and powerful positions in the English Court.

The Four Lions Passant of Gwynedd:

The standard above 'was' the Cymric Royal flag of the princely House of Aberffraw and the Kingdom of Gwynedd used by Llywelyn the Great and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.  A few however, Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas amongst them, wish this flag to be recognised as the Cymric National flag to be flown throughout Cymru but, the 'Lord' and others should be reminded that the Four Lions Passant of Gwynedd  was representative of 13th century Pura Wallia and not the whole of Cymru  Also, as Lord Elis Thomas well knows, this Gwynedd flag was 'looted' along with the title 'Prince of Wales' by the English Royalty in 1283. Following Gwynedd's conquest by Edward I, the title "Prince of Wales" was adopted by the eldest son of the 'English' sovereign. The first English prince of Wales, the future Edward II, was proclaimed by his father Edward I in the grounds of Caernarfon Castle. They used a version of this flag with a green shield and a crown in the centre and Charles Windsor still uses this flag today.  Of course, promotion and recognition of this flag as the flag of Cymru would fit in nicely with the hideous and devious plan of our latest arch Cambro-Brit traitor Lord Elis Thomas, who has recently announced that as the Welsh Government's tourism minister, he will promote Wales as "principality within the United Kingdom".  What better way to display to the English royalty what a loyal grovelling little 'taff'  he is!
 

We must all be very vigilant in regards to his plans, in order to organise well ahead so that we are not 'duped' once again! If, we allow him and fellow 'Cambro-Brits' to get away with this right under our noses 'again' without a fight...then, we deserve to remain on our knees!

Baner Dewi Sant  (The Cross of St David's):

Dewi Sant,  the patron Saint of Cymru was a Cymric Bishop in Mynwy during the 6th century.  In 1120, Pope Callactus II canonised him as a Saint. Following this he was declared Patron Saint of Wales.

The flag of St David is a gold cross on a black background, although earlier variations exist; these include a black cross on a gold field and engrailed edges on the cross. It should be noted that it was Henry V who first declared Dydd Gŵyl Dewi (St David's Day as a day of celebration as a nod to the treacherous 'Taffs' who fought for him at Azincourt in 1415. Then, as a follow up to that, the English propagandist Shakespeare made much of it in his plays but it did not really take off until the 18th and 19th centuries - encouraged by The Society of Ancient Britons and the London Welsh society, (both Cambro-Brit societies based in London) and by Victorian Cambrian Capitalist Wales to counter all the Catholic Corpus Christi processions and celebration of St Patrick Day - particularly in the anglicised towns of the Southern Coastal belt.

Prior to 1920, the Dewi Sant Yellow Cross was identified with the Anglican Church in Cymru; then, post 1922 and disestablishment, it became more frequently used by the Protestant Church in Cymru but, it was not until recent times that the flag was mass produced and promoted (along with Welsh Kilts) by John Wake ex CID and now 'self styled' Mr Welsh Tourism - and let's not forget, this was the man that tried to have the 'Union Rag' put on the 'Tudor Rag! At least, he was not shy in coming forward to show his real colours...as a 'true Brit!

We know that the chief promoters of the Cross of Dewi Sant flag in Cymru today are the Welsh Tartan Centres in Caerdydd and Abertawe (both owned by John Wake), Cambria Magazine, the Military and Hospitalier Order of Saint David, and the misguided 'first kilted' Cambria Band' who, incidentely, have been 'kitted out' by John Wake's Welsh Tartan Centre. Much more comfortable for the English State to have the band parading around in kilts rather than in bottle green shirts and berets and to have it called the 'Cambria Band' with their kit draped in 'Tudor rags' than they be called the 'Glyndwr' or 'Abergele Martyrs' band draped in Glyndwr flags! 


Also now, choosing the Yellow Cross of Dewi Sant rather than the 'Tudor Rag' is the Welsh Christian Party - and way before all of these, the 38th Welsh Division of the British Army - who had adopted it just in time for WW ll .

These developments, unfortunately, have made St David's Day as BRIT as it comes - and so favourable with 'leek eating' Welsh soldiers of the British Army and the London Welsh Cambro-Brits who raise their glasses to the Queen of England (not Dewi?) and sing the English national anthem (not Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau?) with gusto at the end of their annual St David Day dinners!  And back here in Cymru, we watch as "self declared nationalists and patriots" support a flag which has now more to do with 'phoney and spuedo patriotism'  than a 'Free Cymru'. For those genuinely serious about pursuing our purposeful patriotic principles, they can only follow the true flags of a Sovereign and free Cymru, the 'Four Lions Rampant'  and the Golden Dragon Battle flag of Owain Glyndŵr.

The Four Lions Rampant Flag of Owain Glyndŵr:

This flag must should not be confused with the first flag of Gwynedd which was looted by Edward I, as I earlier noted, the first flag of the Princes of Gwynedd and Aberffraw was the Four Lions Passant until Owain Llawgoch modified the flag to make the lions rampant. This is the flag that Owain Glyndŵr adopted as depicted above. 

On his father's side, Owain Glyndŵr was descended from the old kingdom of Powys (see pic of  the Powys banner with the red lion on a yellow field)

On his mother's side, he was descended from the House of Deheubarth.ThePrincipality of Deheubarth was the largest and most powerful realm of Southern Wales prior to the 1283 conquest. ( pic of the banner of Deheubarth with a yellow lion on a red field)

Owain  had no formal royal banner of his own when he was proclaimed TywysogCymru and as he was anxious to present himself as the rightful heir of Owain Llawgoch (which he was, through his great grandmother) and therefore the rightful heir of Gwynedd as well  as the rightful Tywysog  of 'all' of Cymru. What better way to do this than to adopt Owain Llawgoch's banner which would also depict the Lions of Powys and Deheubarth, and that is the true National flag that we have inherited today and, be it only out of respect to Tywysogion Owain Llawgoch and Owain Glyndŵr and all the Cymry that fought and died alongside them for the cause of Cymric freedom, this is the only flag we should accept and embrace as our national flag, and proudly fly high.

But, of course, following the demise of Owain Glyndŵr's War of Independence and his mysterious disappearance, the Four Lions Rampant was swept under the carpet of history along with, to all extent and purposes, the history of this great War of Independence of a small nation of 50,000 fighting under our greatest of warrior princes against the might of a nation of 3 million, and all its sophisticated war machinery in an effort to win back the sovereignty and freedom that our nation and people had lost in 1283.

The flag remained hidden in the obscurities of history until Llysgenhadaeth/Embassy Glyndŵr revived it in the year 1999, in time for the 600th anniversary of the beginning of the War of Independence which most agree ended with the dissapearance of Owain 1n 1415 - although his son Maredudd was still raiding from Eryri up until 1421.

In the year 2000, along with the flags and bunting,  Llysgenhadaeth Glyndŵr also

produced 10,000 cloth ribbons and 1,000 enamel ribbons in the Glyndŵr colours of red and yellow along with a magazine entitled 'Galwad Glyndŵr' and worked with a number of businesses to bring out a whole range of products with imagery of Owain Glyndŵr on them

as well as devised a programme of events that was designed to commemorate and celebrate every historical turn in the calendar of the 15 yr war and since the year 2000, a large number of new books have been written about Owain Glyndŵr and his War of Independence, a number of new songs have been composed and a new statue of him on horseback was erected in Corwen by a local Corwen town committee.

 

We petitioned Local authorities and Cadw to fly the Glyndŵr Four Lions Rampant from their Civic Buildings and castles throughout Cymru indefinitely. and schools, shops, hotels, public houses, caravan parks and anywhere and everywhere with a flag pole or a place to erect a flag pole was approached to fly a Glyndŵr flag.

With the assistance of a passionate and generous sponser in Bob Rice of Castle Crafts, Caerdydd (who has also sponsored the Glyndŵr Sword of State and the Corwen dagger, we produced two gigantic embroidered Owain Glyndŵr flags, one was presented in a formal presentation ceremony to the National Assembly of Wales in 2001 to fly above that building, and the other was presented to the National Eisteddfod of Cymru to fly annually atop the main pavilion. Pic below is of Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas accepting the large Owain Glyndŵr flag at the National Assembly in 2001. It was presented by Dr Gwynfor Evans's son Alcwyn ap Gwynfor. Gwynfor was the Honary President of Llysgenhadaeth Glyndŵr but he was very frail at this time and unable to attend himself so Alcwyn came on his behalf to do the honours. Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas in his acceptance speech promised to treasure the flag and see to it that it was flown annually on Dydd Glyndwr whilst he was in his presidency role! I have it all on film Dafydd El!!  

Many have, and continue to answer the call and we have witnessed whole towns such as Caernarfon initially, although they no longer do - shame on them!)  Pwllheli, Penrhyndeudraeth, Dolgellau, Harlech and Conwy, Corwen and Llangollen who still do fly the flag - and it is now 2018  (Please see my film on Youtube for a fuller account of the flying of the flag at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuj1Pbj6RPs

However, we do still send out an annual call requesting 'all' passionate and dedicated true patriots to fly the Glyndŵr flag - and will not cease to do so until we see Cymru totally seeped and covered from end to end in the 'Four Lions Rampant'. When we witness this, we will know that our nation is, at last, regaining her dignity and that our people are regaining their sense of national pride and national identity and then, we just may have a chance of regaining our independence.

Be in no doubt, the FOUR LIONS RAMPANT of Owain Glyndŵr is the only flag that can be our national flag, the only flag that can truly stand for our sovereignty and Independence in Cymru, we have been 'duped' with the 'tudor rag' and I have illustrated above how 'BRIT' the flag of St David's is. Its very interesting to note, how the latter was mass produced when it became noticeable how people were increasingly embracing the Glyndŵr flag? Makes one ponder doesn't it if  'the powers that be' were worried about this sudden rise in support for Glyndŵr in Cymru so close on the tail of the Meibion Glyndŵr Arson campaign?


The arch traitor, Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas has made it pretty obvious that he hates 'Baner Glyndŵr'. I witnessed him stating so myself on a 'Pawb a'i Farn' S4C programme a few years ago. The truth is, he cannot bear what it stands for...ANNIBYNIAETH! He just loves to 'grovel' to the English Royalty and is embarrassed in their company by the sight of Baner Glyndŵr flying throughout Cymru so, let's embarrass him further...MUCH FURTHER! Let's make sure that the English Royalty get the message loud and clear...THIS IS CENEDL GLYNDŴR - CENEDL CYMRU RYDD AND WE HAVE OUR OWN FLAG...GLYNDŴR'S FLAG. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE SO GET OUT OF OUR NATION AND TAKE YOUR GROVELLING 'TAFFS' WITH YOU!
 
If you do not have a Glyndŵr flag yet, why not?They're in every Cymric shop and market stall now and if you want to make a 'big' statement or want one as backdrop in a school assembly hall or for a gig or whatever,do contact me at sifl@hotmail.co.uk or phone 07772321511, I have a limited number of 5'x 8' ones.

One stupid young 'brit' in his feeble attempt to discredit the work of Cofiwn, Llysgenhadaeth/Embassy Glyndŵr, and the  Glyndŵr flag went so far as to write..."Glyndŵr's flag, as a standard, should be flown in a square-shaped banner, rather than the 3:5 proportions of regular flags. The 3:5 gives a rather inelegant and elongated look to the rampant lions. From an aesthetic point of view Llywelyn's lions passant on a square banner would look better. In fact, had the 700th anniversarey of Llywelyn's  death in 1982 captured the public's imagination as much as Glyndŵr's 600th anniversary in 2000, maybe Llywelyn's s standard would be the alternative flag."

His reasoning is utter nonsense of course, in the first instance, there is a perfectly good reason why regular flags are longer in length than height. It is so that they can catch the wind and fly properly, a square banner, regardless of the image on it, would not fly as well. Square is good for tablecloths - but not for flags!

He then argued the Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas argument that the '4 Lions Passant' of Llywelyn should be our 'alternative' national flag! I have already given sound reasons why our national flag cannot be what used to be the standard of Gwynedd Pura- Wallia, the main reason being that this standard has now been taken and tainted by the English monarchy and is in use by Charles Windsor but also, added can be the fact that Llywelyn could never catch the public's imagination like Glyndŵr can. Llywelyn was the Tywysog of Gwynedd - Pura Wallia, whilst Glyndŵr was the Tywysog of all of Cymru - not only by right but also by conquest. Llywelyn, and his brother Dafydd had been betrayed and killed whilst Glyndŵr had never been betrayed, never accepted a pardon (he had been offered one twice) but had mysteriously dissapeared to keep the prophecy of the 'Mab Darogan' alive to this day.

However, contrary to his statement that the 700th anniversary of Llywelyn's death had not caught the public imagination as much as Glyndŵr's 600th anniversary did, The 700th anniversary of Llywelyn's death did, indeed, catch the public's imagination in 1982 - thanks to the hard work of the movement Cofiwn who had the Llywelyn Commemorative coin and other memorabilia produced and who organised an event a month in different parts of Cymru for the whole year concluding with a major prestigeous event at Cilmeri and Builth (with well over 2,000 people in attendance) and another in Abaty Cwm Hir over the weekend surrounding the 11th of December. Cofiwn was also responsible for placing the memorial to Llywelyn at Abaty Cwm Hir in 1977 but whilst Cofiwn saw to it that Llywelyn had a fitting commemoration throughout 1982, we were aware that the only figure in our history that could be mobilized to awaken a real national consciousness in our people was the enigmatic 'Mab  Darogan' Owain Glyndŵr.

Incidentally, the young 'Brit' aforementioned above has also got it wrong about the dates that both the Glyndŵr and the 'St David's flags "came into popularity" as he puts it, he states that such happened at the time of the foundation of the National Assembly in 1997?

Llysgenhadaeth/Embassy Glyndŵr brought the first batch of Glyndŵr flags out in 1999 in time for the year 2000 - the 600th anniverary of Owain Glyndŵr being proclaimed Tywysog Cymru. The first batch of St David's flags was bought out in time for the first St David's Day parade in Caerdydd in 2004. Interesting to note that this first St David'S Day parade in Caerdydd was organised in the same year that Llysgenhadaeth Glyndŵr was organising major events to celebrate the crowning of Owain Glyndŵr and the establishing of his Senedd in Machynlleth in 1404!  As part of these 600th celebrations, we were calling for Dydd Glyndŵr Day to be made a national holiday and, low and behold,  the organisers of this first St David's Day Parade in Caerdydd called for St David's Day to be made a national holiday!

So, are the Cymry to be 'duped' again by the English state and their Cambro-Brit fellow travellers in Cymru?  dont be! If you consider yourself to be a Cymric patriot wanting to rid the Cymry of English rule and exploitation, get a large Glyndŵr flag asap and proudly fly it high from a pole in your garden or from your bedroom window, at any and all sporting events and wherever possible. Please do not listen to the 'faint hearted' who give as their excuses such lines as, for example ..."but er, the world recognises Y Ddraig Goch"  or..."We have had this flag for a long time and we cannot change it now"

Our answer to such is...Why not, South Africa did! being one of many countries who have changed their national flags within our life time - so why not Cymru? And, do remember that, just like the Acts of Annexation, the 'Tudor Rag' was foisted on us in 1959 so, we have not had it for a 'very long time' at all!

THE GOLDEN DRAGON - OWAIN GLYNDŴR'S BATTLE FLAG:

The castle built  in Caernarfon by Edward I following the 1282 - 82 conquest of Cymru was not only part of the military means of keeping Cymru in subjection but was also deliberately built on an imperial scale and style to resemble the 'walls of Constantinople' and thus would serve as an impenetrable and permanent memorial to Edward's conquest. However, 118 years after this conquest, Owain Glyndŵr and a small army assembled atop Twtil where Owain commanded his standard bearer Elis ap Rhisiart to raise 'Baner y Ddraig Aur' .

The Golden Dragon on a white field flag had been recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Brittaniae (History of the Kings of Britain) as being the flag of Uthr Pendragon, father of the Brenin Arthur. It has also appeared in Cymric heraldry poetry in reference to the founder Tywysog of Gwynedd Owain ap Gruffydd Cynan aka Owain Gwynedd, and the account of Owain Glyndŵr unfurling his battle flag - a 'Golden dragon on a white field' on Twtil on the 2nd of November 1401 appears in the chronicles of Adam of Usk. The Golden Dragon is also on Owain Glyndŵr's privy seals.

The Golden Dragon is traditionally associated with 'Meibion Darogan' and in the same way that Owain was eager to demonstrate his rightful claim to be the Tywysog of all of Cymru (as I earlier explained) he was also eager to show that he was the 'Owain' of the prophecies - the promised 'reedemer' of the Cymry and by using this flag which was recorded in the chronicles as being associated with Uthr and Arthur as well as the first Tywysogion of Gwynedd, he was covering all angles and, its obvious, that by appearing with the golden dragon 'battle flag' at and above the walls of Caernarfon castle, he was making a clear statement, he wanted to leave the English in no doubt that he was "challenging English rule in Cymru"

Since then, there have been two occasions when the Cymry have been called upon to commemorate and celebrate their own conquest with two investitures of English pretenders as Princes of Cymru at Caernarfon castle - the symbol of conquest; would it not have been far better that they commemorate and celebrate an event that challenged that conquest - as was done on 2nd November 1401 by Tywysog Owain Glyndŵr?  

Y DWSTWR BRENHINOL...THE THREE FEATHERS

On 2nd March 2007, there appeared an article on the front page of the Western Mail in regards to a request by Charles Windsor for us to keep our Cymric hands off his 'Three Feathers. I, for one, would wish that everybody in Cymru complies with his wish and abandons the use of this English symbol of our slavish servitude to Saxon rule and replace its use with a truly Cymric symbol such as - The Four Lions Rampant of Owain Glyndŵr.

The 'Three Feathers' in question is, of course, the 'Three Feathers' emblem of the English Prince of Wales Charles Windsor. The emblem consists of 3 ostrich feathers behind a gold coronet, and a ribbon below the coronet bears the motto "Ich Dien" German for "I serve".  Everyone will have seen this badge on Cymric rugby wear and Llysgenhadaeth/Embassy Glyndŵr has always stressed the point that this 'Three Feathers or, as we have renamed it...Y DWSTWR BRENHINOL...THE ROYAL DUSTER has nothing to do with Cymru and we have vigorously campaigned against its use in our land for many years, as 'Pobl Glyndŵr' do not "serve" anybody but our legitimate Cymric Princes (the last being Tywysog Owain Glyndŵr) and the people of Cymru.

Whilst waiting for the 'penny to drop' with the WRU, why not sew your own FOUR LIONS RAMPANT cloth badges over the Royal duster on your rugby attire? We have given our stock to the Cefn Caer Medieval Hall house in Pennal who have more of an opportunity to sell them than us. Also Castle Crafts opposite the castle in Caerdydd may have some.

Siân Ifan