Aberffraw Castle

Aberffraw Castle is one of the oldest fortifications in the Imperial Heartland, being built shortly after the conquest of County Cadwaller in 32 KOR. When it was built, it was built by the First Baron of Aberffraw, which is where the name originates from, however it was manned and guarded during its use by the army of the Duchy of Kordowyn. The Barony did not earn its name from the First Baron, rather from the Cadwaller name for the area, unlike many other noble titles in Kordowyn, which were named after their first holder. The castle was abandoned during the reign of Arthwr II, when the Count of Cadwaller began constructing a much larger and more defensible castle in his lands to the north.
The previous Baron of Aberffraw contracted the sweating sickness during the outbreak in 245, and died without a direct heir. Since then, the ownership of the Castle and the lands around it had been in limbo, until it was discovered that Emperor Llywelyn I was in fact the heir to the Barony of Aberffraw, through a lot of distant relatives. The Emperor chose not to keep the land around the Castle, however he did choose to keep the Castle, in hopes of one day having the castle restored. 
When Cedig Caddick overthrew Parliament and tried to capture the Emperor, the Imperial Army, the Emperor, and his cabinet retreated to Aberffraw, where they eventually were met up with 25,000 Hybretian Calvalry and Infantry under the lead of King Daelin I. The Blackshirts failed to push west, and the expected attack on the castle never came, insteads after the disastrous Battle for Montgomery, the Emperor and the two armies staged a succesful Liberation of Kordowyn, ending the Blackshirt revolt. 
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