" It was also one of the English, Welsh and Irish quarter days when accounts had to be settled.

Mention of the battle is made in dozens of sources, in Old English, Latin, Irish, Welsh, Icelandic, and Middle English, and there are many later accounts or responses to the battle, including those by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Jorge Luis Borges.

The location of the battle appears in various forms in the sources: Brunanburh ( in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle or the chronicle of John of Worcester, or in accounts derived from them ), Brunandune ( Aethelweard ), Brunnanwerc or Bruneford or Weondune ( Symeon of Durham and accounts derived from him ), Brunefeld or Bruneford ( William of Malmesbury and accounts derived from him ), Duinbrunde ( Scottish traditions ), Brun ( Welsh traditions ), plaines of othlynn ( Annals of Clonmacnoise ), and Vinheithr ( Egil's Saga ), among others.

There is also a rare white leucistic form which accounts for approximately 1 % of hatchlings in the Welsh population but is at a disadvantage in the survival stakes.

Since the two Corgi breeds developed in the Welsh hill country, in areas only a few miles apart, there is evidence of crossbreeding between the two that accounts for the similarities.

Many of the Welsh soldiers chose to be demobilised to Portadown as they had formed relationships there and this accounts for some of the Welsh surnames in the town.

Kay's father is called Ector in later literature, but the Welsh accounts name him as Cynyr Fork-Beard.

For example, De Vries states that he wrote one of the most accurate accounts of the Battle of Crécy during the Hundred Years ' War, including information that the archers were placed precariously behind the English and Welsh infantry, not on the flanks as others asserted.

According to traditional accounts Talgarth was the capital of the early medieval Welsh Kingdom of Brycheiniog.

On 29 September 1914 Welsh author Arthur Machen published a short story entitled " The Bowmen " in the London newspaper The Evening News, inspired by accounts that he had read of the fighting at Mons and an idea he had had soon after the battle.

In parliament he was a member of the Welsh affairs select committee from 1992 until he joined the public accounts committee in 1996.

In September 1966 the Welsh Liberal Party formed their own state party, moving the Liberal Party into a fully federal structure.

He declared his vision of an independent Welsh state with a parliament and separate Welsh church.

The ascension of the Tudor dynasty to the throne of England eased hostilities between the English and Welsh, and resulted in Caernarfon Castle falling in to a state of disrepair.

It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state.

The Welsh Minister for Rural Affairs, Elin Jones, kicked off Plaid's annual conference by pledging to uphold the goal of making Wales a European Union member state.

In English-medium education schools, the study of Welsh is compulsory and must be taught from the age of 5-16 in all state funded schools.

A federation differs from a devolved state, such as the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Spain, because, in a devolved state, the central government can revoke the independence of the subunits ( Scottish Parliament, Welsh National Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly in the case of the UK ) without changing the constitution.

After Labour's victory in the 1997 general election he joined the government, first at the Welsh Office 1997-1999, then as minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1999-2001.

In Wales, all pupils at state schools must either be taught through the medium of Welsh or study it as an additional language until aged 16, and the Welsh Language Act 1993 and the Government of Wales Act 1998 provide that the Welsh and English languages should be treated equally in the public sector, so far as is reasonable and practicable.

Sheen is the president of TREAT Trust Wales, a charity which aims to provide a rehabilitation and therapy centre in the grounds of Swansea ’ s Morriston Hospital by 2015, and is the Welsh ambassador of FILMCLUB, a charity which offers after-school film clubs to state primary and secondary schools in an effort to improve literacy levels.

For many years, the main candidate was John Penry, a Welsh preacher and author of several impassioned polemics against the state of the church.

: Our aim is to secure full Independence for Wales as a democratic and sovereign state ensuring economic prosperity and social harmony for the people of Wales and safeguarding our common Welsh heritage, language, culture and identity.

The Welsh Guards were part of the 1st Guards Brigade and performed internal security ( IS ) duties while there, before leaving in 1948 during the British withdrawal and when the state of Israel was declared.

A number of officers of the Welsh Guards stood in vigil around the Queen Mother's coffin which was lying in state in Westminster Hall, one of a number of regiments to do so.

The Welsh Tract, also called the Welsh Barony, was a portion of the U. S. state of Pennsylvania settled largely by Welsh-speaking Quakers.

The castle was never to be reoccupied, while the town was to become a small Welsh backwater, no longer involved in affairs of state.

The Welsh Bruts state that " Rhys ap Tewdwr, king of Deheubarth, was slain by the Frenchmen who were inhabiting Brycheiniog.

In England, The Caribbean, and Wales, education is only compulsory until the end of year 11, the school year in which the pupil turns 16 ( although this is changing in August 2013 to compulsory education until year 12 and by 2015, education will be compulsory until year 13 ) In the English and Welsh state educational systems, those wishing to continue may either stay on at a secondary school with an attached sixth form, transfer to a local sixth form college, or go to a more vocational further education college, although, depending on geographical location, there may be little choice as to which of these options can be taken.

The farm was set in and Welsh spent thousands of dollars on improvements, installing a gymnasium, a state of the art kitchen, golf course, tennis courts and a swimming pool.

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE ( born 31 December 1937 ), best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh | deadurl = no

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Based on this work, the first fuel cell was demonstrated by Welsh scientist and barrister Sir William Robert Grove in the February 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science and later sketched, in 1842, in the same journal.

Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE ( 8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001 ) was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice.

Furthermore, Monmouth derived many of his character's names from " Culhwch and Olwen "; Sir Kay comes from " Kai "; Sir Bedivere is derived from " Bedwyr "; and lastly Sir Gawain is " Gwalchmei " in Welsh.

* 1918 – Sir Tasker Watkins, Welsh Victoria Cross recipient and rugby administrator ( d. 2007 )

Glyndŵr's opportunities were further limited by the death of Sir Gregory Sais in 1390 and the sidelining of Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, and he probably returned to his stable Welsh estates, living there quietly for ten years during his forties.

Owain married Margaret Hanmer, also known by her Welsh name Marred ferch Dafydd, daughter of Sir David Hanmer of Hanmer, early in his life.

The antiquary John Leland ( 1506 – 1552 ) as well as John Bale believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholars, beginning with G. L. Kittredge in 1894, assume that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, who was a knight, land-owner and Member of Parliament .< ref > Riddy, Felicity </ Ref >.

Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE ( born 7 June 1940 ), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.

In 1282, Llywelyn was killed during Edward I of England's invasion of Wales, possibly by Sir Anthony de Tipton, who was knighted by the King of England afterward, and although his brother Dafydd ap Gruffudd succeeded to the Welsh princeship, issuing documents as prince, his principate was not recognised by the English Crown.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands ( 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904 ), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.

" These were a force of Welsh spearmen who were kept together by their commander, Sir Maurice de Berkeley, and the majority of them reached Carlisle.

In s. 2 of the Act each council formed for a county is allocated the respective English and Welsh descriptions of " County Council " or " Cyngor Sir ", each council formed for a County Borough is allocated the respective descriptions of " County Borough Council " or " Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol "; in all cases the shorter alternative forms " Council " or " Cyngor " can be used.

Colonel Sir George Everest (; 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866 ) was a Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843.

Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.

Aerial operations were split into two, east of Cape Tenez in Algeria, with British aircraft under Air Marshal Sir William Welsh and west of Cape Tenez, all American aircraft under Major General Jimmy Doolittle, under the direct command of Major General Patton.

* Sir Keith Joseph: Minister of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

Sir Ifor Williams, whose work helped lay the foundations for the academic study of Old Welsh, particularly early Welsh poetry, published the text with notes in Canu Taliesin ( 1960 ), and subsequently in an English version as The Poems of Taliesin ( 1968 ).

Another prominent resident of Birchwood Road was the Welsh Baritone Sir Geraint Evans, and the toastmaster Ivor Spencer also lived nearby.