Carmarthenshire's Battle of Bosworth links explored at Eisteddfod
The links between Carmarthenshire's Sir Rhys ap Thomas and the Bosworth Campaign will be explored at the Carmarthenshire National Eisteddfod in Llanelli next week. On Thursday, August 7 at 11am in the Societies Pavilion, Prof Dafydd Johnston will be giving the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society’s lecture. His talk will be on ‘Sir Rhys ap Thomas and the Bosworth Campaign’. An eminent academic who has a talent for making history come alive, Prof Dafydd Johnston, is the head of the internationally acclaimed University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth. Formerly Professor of Welsh at Swansea University, he has published extensively on Welsh literature of all periods. The subject of Prof Johnston’s lecture is Sir Rhys ap Thomas KG (1449–1525) whose roots are in Carmarthenshire. He was the son of Thomas ap Gruffydd ap Nicolas of Llandeilo and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Gruffydd of Abermarlais, Carmarthenshire. During the Wars of the Roses, he ros...