Note 873 — Chapter IV · TUTORS AND GOVERNORS 1221–1223

“Leulinus vero interea duo castra sita in margia North Walliae, quae fuerunt Fulconis filii Warini, funditus destruxit,” Ann. Dunst., l.c. That this account of Llywelyn’s doings in the winter of 1222–1223 is correct, and that the two castles were Kinnerley and Whittington, appears from the Rolls, though the same writer’s story (ib.) of a war which he represents as immediately preceding the Marshal’s visit to Ireland is surely nothing but a distorted version of the events of 1220: “Eadem tempestate Leulinus, regulorum Gualliae major, regis Angliae sororius, petiit a rege Angliae auxilium ut quaedam castra per Walenses injuste regno Angliae subtracta posset in statum debitum restituere. Habito vero auxilio, dicta castra cepit et destruxit et terram ipsam sibi retinuit.” Cf. above, p. 161. Roger of Wendover (vol. iv. p. 85) also confuses the Welsh war of 1220 with that of 1223, and has added some further confusions of his own. The Dunstable writer is not quite exact in his account of the ownership of the two castles really taken in 1223; according to Close Rolls, vol. i. pp. 554 and 569, Whittington belonged to Fulk FitzWarine, Kinnerley to Baldwin of Hodnet.