Dafydd
The Worcester annalist (chronicler) recorded:
In 1283 David, the brother of the recently beheaded Llywelyn, was captured by the king's men, together with his wife, his two sons and seven daughters, and was tried subsequently by the magnates of England. He was a fomenter of evil, a most vicious tormentor of the English and deceiver of his own race, an ungrateful traitor and a warmonger.
The death of a traitor is indeed shameful! David was dragged at a horse's tail through the streets of Shrewsbury, then hanged and finally decapitated. Afterwards his body was hacked into four portions, his heart and intestines were burned and his head was taken to London, to be displayed on a stake at the Tower, next to his brother's head. The four quarters of his headless corpse were dispatched to Bristol, Northampton, York and Winchester.
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