User:Aetheling1125

Welcome to Aetheling1125 user page. I am now a rare veteran editor and live in the Liberty of Norton Folgate in Middlesex. I have grown distinctly tired of the overbearing attitude of 'administrators' and various self-important yet anonymous people who carp and sneer and drive away everyone who is not part of their in-group. I have a strong interest in dark-age and early medieval British history as well as heraldry, vexillology, genealogy, royalty and current affairs.

As I say with that little badge, I have been an editor of Wikipedia since 2005 when I was active in creating and developing many of the pages which now exist in quite different forms. Many things have changed for the better and worse over the past twenty years, the site is more reliable and better referenced, but regrettably Wikipedia has become increasingly under the control of a rather introspective clique of administrators. This has resulted in an ever smaller number of active editors and the emergence of unwelcome political bias on the site.

"The omission is the most powerful form of lie." – George Orwell, author of 1984

Contributions by the author

I have written or founded the following pages;

==Welsh Royal Standards & Banners ==

These devices were "reverse engineered" from private and civic coats of arms. Since I first published these on wikipedia these images have been re-worked by wikipedians endowed with greater graphic skills and uploaded anew.

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100px	1401 - 1416	Banner adopted by Owain Glyndŵr and thought to be derived from the counter-charged arms of the princely Houses of Mathrafal and Dinefwr. It is currently in use by the National Eisteddfod for Wales, Cymdeithas yr iaith and widely amongst independentist groups	Quarterly Or and Gules, four Lions rampant counter-charged
100px	c.1195 - 1378	Banner of the princely House of Aberffraw and the Kingdom of Gwynedd famously used by Llywelyn the Great, Llywelyn the Last and Owain Lawgoch. The English Prince of Wales uses a version of this flag today emblazoned with a Crown on a green shield	Quarterly Or and Gules, four Lions passant guardant counter-charged langued and armed Azur
70px	c.1100 - c.1400	Banner of the princely House of Mathrafal used during the early Middle Ages by the rulers of Powys, Powys Wenwynwyn and later by their heirs the de la Pole (Powysian) dynasty. Modern use is rare	Or a Lion rampant Gules langued and armed Azur
70px	c.1100 - c.1300	Banner of the princely House of Dinefwr and the Kingdom of Deheubarth, a realm which covered much of south Wales. The banner would have been used during the early Middle Ages and later by the Talbot dynasty who inherited the arms. Modern use is rare	Gules a Lion rampant Or, a border engrailed of the last
100px	c.1240 - 1282	Banner of the personal arms of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd	Argent three Lions passant Gules
100px	c.1160 - c.1350	Banner of Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor, and later the Banner of Powys Fadog	Argent a Lion rampant Sable langued and armed Gules
100px	1400? - 1416?	Banner known as Y Ddraig Aur or "The Golden Dragon" which has ancient origins. It was famously raised over Caernarvon in 1400 by Owain Glyndwr prior to the storming of the town and seizing of the castle	Argent a dragon rampant Or