UNITED wALES

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 No matter what mediaeval Welsh kingdom/principality you came from, you weren't considered a foreigner unless you were from outside of Wales; if you were from England you had the status of a serf or below and had to be vouched for by someone born in Wales (regardless of what part of Wales); all the sources confirm this.

The reason I'm saying this is many people seem to think that the kingdoms of north Wales and south Wales considered themselves as different as they would the English or anyone else; this is utter nonsense, and I can't find anything in the whole of Welsh history that would suggest such a thing. those west of Offa's Dyke did consider themselves the same people; they spoke the same language and had the same laws, culture, traditions and customs, all unique to Cymru and different to everywhere else.


Here is something for you: from the laws of Wales itself, written down by one of the greatest kings of Wales; this alone proves everything these people say is wrong.


Laws of Hywel also known as Welsh law,  Was the legal system which applied to all of Wales throughout the Middle Ages until it was abolished by the Acts of Union in 1536, where Wales was annexed by England. 

Here is The introduction to the Book of Blegywryd version of the laws

"Hywel the Good, son of Cadell, by the grace of God, king of all Wales... summoned to him from every commote of his kingdom six men who were practised in authority and jurisprudence... to the place called the White House on the Taf in Dyfed. ... And at the end of Lent the king selected from that assembly the twelve most skilled laymen of his men and the one most skilled scholar who was called Master Blegywryd, to form and interpret for him and for his kingdom, laws and usages."

The Iorwerth versions, produced in Gwynedd, have exactly the same attribution of the law to Hywel and the council at Whitland as do the southern versions. It is more likely that Hywel's name was used to lend some form of “ancestral authority" to the laws.

Firstly , who were the Welsh? Who was classed as a citizen of Wales?, the answer is written within these laws, 

From wiki and taken from the laws of Hwyl dda 


" Cymry – the modern Welsh for all of the Welsh people – only applied to the free classes and not to serfs or slaves. However, none of them counted as a "foreigner" and, even if they moved from one Welsh "kingdom" (gwlad) to another, they did not suffer that status but were considered fully native.

Those from outside Wales were considered between serfs and slaves, forbidden to offer testimony, and obliged to pledge themselves to a native Welshman (even a serf) who would be responsible for them. This status could only be removed after three generations in the north and possibly as many as nine elsewhere, after which the foreigner's descendants were considered to be native serfs."


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https://walesanditshistory.blogspot.com/2024/07/medievel-welsh-laws-and-legal-systems.html

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