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The Union with England and the Identity of ‘Anglican’ Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

P. R. Roberts
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Thus the Venetian envoy wrote in his ‘Relation’ a few years after Henry Tudor's accession. The history of Tudor policy in Wales has often been interpreted by way of commentary on this assumption, that Henry Tudor, born at Pembroke Castle and descended from the family of Penmynydd, Anglesey, was considered a Welshman and was himself conscious of this heritage. The Welsh origins of the dynasty have been invoked by historians in the past to explain the relative success of its rule in Wales. Both the so-called ‘union’ with England and the reception of the Reformation were achievements in state and church which have been attributed to the general popularity of the dynasty in Wales and to the favour in which the Tudors (particularly the two Henrys and Elizabeth) regarded their Welsh subjects.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 22 , December 1972 , pp. 49 - 70
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1972

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