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A Book of North Wales
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A lion rampant appears to have been the favourite bearing of the princes of Powys. Gruffydd ab Cynan of Gwynedd bore three lions passant gardant in pale argent incensed azure.
Lewis Dwnn, in his Heraldic Visitations of Wales, says that “the recognised arms of the Principality were four lions passant gardant quarterly, and that is the coat now accepted for Wales.”
The red dragon was used by Henry VII. as his crest, and as a supporter on the dexter side, and on the sinister, the greyhound of York.
Henry VIII. retained the dragon, but discarded the greyhound for a lion. The unicorn supplanted the dragon in the reign of James I. The ostrich feather was not properly a Welsh crest at all, but was employed as a badge by Edward III. It was not till the reign of Henry VII. that the three plumes, to represent the three principalities of Wales, in a circlet or coronet, were adopted as a cognisance of the Prince of Wales, and since then have remained as an appropriate symbol; for, indeed, Gwynedd, Powys, and Deheubarth are feathers in the cap of our princes of which they may well be proud.
notes
1
Rhys and Brynmor Jones, The Welsh People, p. 342.
2
A Peris is, however, given as son of Helig ab Glannog (Iolo MSS. p. 124), but is this the same?
3
Rhys and Brynmor Jones, The Welsh People, p. 356.
4
The Vale of Clwyd, by W. Davis. Ruthin, 1856.
5
R. G. Davies, The Visions of the Sleeping Bard, translated. London, 1897.
6
Williams (R.), Montgomeryshire Worthies, p. 79. Newtown, 1894.
7
Bradley, Owen Glyndwr, p. 178.
8
Lloyd Price (R. J.), Walks in Wales, 1893, p. 44.
9
Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Society, 1903.
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