page_title: Owen Glendower (novel)
section_title: 1416: The death of Owen Glendower
hierarchical_section_title: Owen Glendower (novel) / Plot introduction / Synopsis / 1416: The death of Owen Glendower
caption_attribution_description: English: Caer Drewyn., near to Clawdd Poncen, Denbighshire/Sir Ddinbych, Wales. Part of the defensive wall at Caer Drewyn Iron Age hill fort near Corwen.
context_page_description: Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel by John Cowper Powys was first published in America in January 1941, and in the UK in February 1942. Powys returned to Britain from the USA in 1934, with his lover Phyllis Playter, living first in Dorchester, where he began work on his novel Maiden Castle. However, in July, 1935, they moved to the village of Corwen, Denbighshire, North Wales, historically part of Edeirnion or Edeyrnion, an ancient commote of medieval Wales that was once part of the Kingdom of Powys; it was at Corwen that he completed Maiden Castle. This move to the land of his ancestors led Powys to write Owen Glendower the first of two historical novels set in this region of Wales; the other was Porius. Owen, Powys's ninth novel, reflects "his increasing sense of what he thought of as his bardic heritage."
  Powys has used Shakespeare's anglicised version of Owain Glyndŵr's name, "Owen Glendower" for the title of his novel. However, within the novel, he uses Owen Glyn Dŵr. He also refers to Glyndŵr, as
  "Owen ap Griffith" or "son of Griffith Fychan"
context_section_description: The action of the chapter XX, the novel's penultimate chapter, ends in August 1405 (Owen Glendower (1941), pp. 787, 841), and in chapter XX1 the action moves forward to 1416. Powys treats the Battle of Worcester as the turning point and does not deal with subsequent battles. Owen's rebellion is over, and Henry V is now on the throne.
  In November 1416, Rhisiart ab Owen, in the company of Lord Talbot, sent by Henry V to offer a pardon to Owen, is preceding to Owen's hiding place beneath the hill-fortress of Mynydd-y-Gaer, above Corwen, where he lives with Broch. But by the time they arrive he is dying, and Glendower passes away just at the moment the pardon is about to be bestowed. The book ends with Glendower's son, Meredith, returning from his father's cremation and there is an atmosphere of optimism about the future of Wales.
  The fates of the remaining major characters are made known in the course of the final chapter. Tegolin and Rhisiart, who is now an English judge, have a daughter, Catharine, and are due to be reunited at last, just as the book ends.
caption: Caer Drewyn, Corwen, locally known as Mynydd-y-Gaer, the hill fort where Powys completed Owen Glendower on 24 December 1939. This is where, in the novel, Glendower dies
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