Wales in the Late Middle Ages

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Wales in the late Middle Ages spanned the years 1282–1542, beginning with conquest and ending in union.[1] Those years covered the period involving the closure of Welsh medieval royal houses during the late 13th century, and Wales' final ruler of the House of Aberffraw, the Welsh Prince Llywelyn II,[2] also the era of the House of Plantagenet from England, specifically the male line descendants of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou as an ancestor of one of the Angevin kings of England who would go on to form the House of Tudor from England and Wales.[3]

The House of Tudor would go on to create new borders by incorporating Wales into the Kingdom of England by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542, effectively ever since then new shires had been created in place of castles, by changing the geographical borders of the Kingdoms of Wales to create a new definitions for towns and their surrounding lands.[4] Historians referring to the end of the late Middle Ages in Britain often reference the Battle of Bosworth Field involving Henry VII of England, which began a new era in Wales.[5]

  1. ^ Ferguson 1962.
  2. ^ Pierce, 1959a, p. 20.
  3. ^ Wagner 2001, p. 206.
  4. ^ Turner & Johnson 2006.
  5. ^ Saul 2005.