Mongomery Castle.... to continue with my "castle of wales" project. A few shots of the castle in color. I also got them in mono to post up another time. It is one of many Norman castles on the border between Wales and England. The motte and bailley is now known as Y Domen and was initially built at the order of Roger de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury some time between 1071 and 1074. Montgomery Castle was commenced in the late summer of 1223 on the sixteenth birthday of Henry III of England. In 1228 Prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth attacked the castle unsuccesfully, but another attack in 1233 resulted in extensive damages to the castle. In 1267 Montgomery was the meeting place for treaty negotiations, where King Henry III granted Llywelyn ap Gruffydd the title of prince of Wales. Fifteen years later in December 1282 the army of Montgomery marched from here to Builth Wells to surprise and kill Llywelyn. After 1295 and the final Welsh War of the thirteenth century the castle became more of a military backwater and prison than a front line fortress. Montgomery was granted a Royal Charter by the King in 1227, making it the oldest borough in Wales.