Talk:Rowland Laugharne

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Nice work. I made a few minor corrections. In the introduction, I changed this paragraph because part of it was not cited in the narrative section. Djmaschek (talk) 04:45, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Original: He began his career in the household of the Earl of Essex, who owned lands in Carmarthenshire, and later commanded Parliamentarian forces in the First English Civil War. Laugharne is thought to have served with him in Europe, and led Parliamentarian resistance in Pembrokeshire, from 1643 until the Royalists surrendered in June 1646.
 * Revised: Laugharne served as a page to Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex and may have fought with Essex in Europe where he learned the military trade. Laugharne led the Parliamentarian resistance in Pembrokeshire during the First English Civil War from 1643 until the Royalists surrendered in June 1646.


 * Thanks; there has to be some information on this period, I'll keep looking :). Robinvp11 (talk) 17:48, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Rowland Laugharne Link with Laugharne Castle
I have copied my new section from Robin's Talk Page on to here in case others may wish to comment Sirjohnperrot (talk) 15:35, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Your latest revisions of the above are a definite improvement and thank you for adding a source after the rather puzzling removal of my own citation for what was left of my addition and which I've queried.

I'd like to respond to your comment about my deleted additions being possibly more relevant in a separate article on the 'Siege of Laugharne Castle'. Although the attack permanently transformed the town's chief attraction into an uninhabitable, if picturesque, ruin its historical significance seems very minor. Just one of many such events during the civil war in Wales and Laugharne is never mentioned again in the records following the events of 1644. It seems to me though that Laugharne castle did have special importance to Rowland Laugharne and is probably worthy of a brief mention in his biographical article. Trouble is I'm not nearly experienced enough as an editor to judge its appropriate weight (or detached enough as a contributor given my username - purely coincidental btw!)

I believe Rowland's early choice to attack Laugharne castle is a classic revenge story really. Rowland's father John had fought a long and unsuccessful court battle to inherit his grandfather Sir John Perrot's considerable estates. These importantly included Laugharne castle from which his family had taken their name centuries before. Following the untimely death of his mother's brother Sir Thomas in 1594 and after many years of bitter litigation by Lettice as the then wife of Walter Vaughn alongside her sister-in-law Dorothy Devereaux, they finally passed to Sir John's illegitimate son James instead of them. Following his death in 1637 and to the further consternation of John (who was still alive in 1644) and no doubt his only son Rowland, the entire estate passed to an obscure and questionable relative in Herefordshire. The owner of Laugharne castle at the time of the seige was Sir Sackville Crowe who had secured a reversionary lease in 1617 on the Lordship of Laugharne, again in highly dubious circumstances, which he was granted on the death of Sir Thomas' widow Dorothy in 1619.

All this could well explain the now deleted description of Laugharne by the Parliamentarians as ‘one of the holds from whence our forces and the country received the greatest annoyance.’ (see Thomason Tracts E256.44) None of this is original research I think, just linking known information.

I recently edited the Laugharne article to remove an apparently common misconception that it was Cromwell who destroyed the castle in Laugharne in a second seige. The source still survives there - for now at least - "Oliver Cromwell was in south Wales on two occasions, in 1648 and on neither occasion did he visit Laugharne. It would appear that the fact that Cromwell defeated Colonel Laugharne has somehow become associated with Cromwell besieging the castle of Laugharne. The only siege at Laugharne Castle was the one of November 1644". Sirjohnperrot (talk) 15:34, 24 June 2020 (UTC)