Owen Glendower

The celebrated Welsh chieftain, generally known as Owen Glendower, was surnamed after this valley, the whole of which belonged to him, and in which he had two or three places of strength, though his general abode was

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

“Did you ever hear of a gwr boneddig called Owen Glendower?”

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

The celebrated Welsh chieftain, generally known as Owen Glendower, was surnamed after the valley, which belonged to him.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

It was now about two o’clock, and feeling rather thirsty I went to an inn very appropriately called the Owen Glendower, being the principal inn in the principal town of what was once the domain of the great Owen.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

He liked to quote from Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I," in which Owen Glendower boasts that he can "call spirits from the vasty deep" and Hotspur replies that he can, too, and "so can any man; but will they come when you do call for them?"

Robert Schlesinger: Barack Obama and the Power of Language 2008

He faced ten rebellions and hostility from the French, Irish, Scots and, above all, the Welsh, led by Owen Glendower.

Review of The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer 2007

There were some lingerings of rebellion yet: Owen Glendower being retired to Wales, and a preposterous story being spread among the ignorant people that King Richard was still alive.

A Child's History of England 2007

He faced ten rebellions and hostility from the French, Irish, Scots and, above all, the Welsh, led by Owen Glendower.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

And Owen Glendower bivouacked in the haunted woods north of Penrice Castle yonder, to make attacks against Edward's mighty fortress at Carreg-Cennen.

Orphans of Chaos 2005

Owen Glendower, and that I saw two females, whom his marauders had carried off from Cheshire or Shropshire to toil and slave in the Welshery, walking together after the labours of the day were done, and bemoaning their misfortunes in their own homely English.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004