The Tripartite Indenture was an agreement made in February 1405 among Owain Glyndŵr, Edmund Mortimer, and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, agreeing to divide England and Wales up among them at the expense of Henry IV. Glyndŵr was to be given

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, and a substantial part of the

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, including the English portions of the Welsh Marches. Northumberland was to have received the north, as well as

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, and Leicestershire. The Mortimers were to have received the rest of southern England.Trevor Royle, ''The Wars of the Roses; England's First Civil War'', Abacus, 2009, pg 95 The agreement defined Glyndŵr's borders as follows: The three parts met at ( Welsh: 'The Ashes of Meigion'), a point between

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and

Kinver Kinver is a large village in the District of South Staffordshire in Staffordshire, England. It is in the far south-west of the county, at the end of the narrow finger of land surrounded by the counties of Shropshire, Worcestershire and the ...

where ash trees grew.. A village called Six Ashes still exists to this day on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border.

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{{Reflist 1405 in England 1405 in Wales 15th century in England 15th century in Wales 1400s treaties Partition (politics) Glyndŵr Rising

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