Cardiff Castle
"Cardiff, the county town of Glamorganshire, seems to be a corruption of Caer Taf, the fortress on the river Taf. Caerdydd, its
Welsh name, is thought to be derived from Caer Didi, the fortress of
Didius, from a port which, it is assumed, the Roman General Aulus
Didius erected here, and who succeeded Ostorius in command of the
legions of Britain. Roman remains have been found within the walls
of the present Castle, which stands on the line of the Roman coast
road through South Wales. Jertyn ap Gwrgan commenced building
walls round Cardiff, and must have had some stronghold, when he was
driven out of Glamorgan by Robert Fitzhamon, the Anglo-Norman
conqueror of Glamorganshire, who built the present Castle in the
room of a smaller erection built by the Welsh princes of Morganwg." Extract from "Abbeys, Castles and ancient halls of England and Wales; their legendary lore and popular history" (Archive)
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