Was there ever a Welsh King of England?

Answer 1

Well, there was Henry Tudor (Henry VII, father of Henry VIII); his father was Edmund Tudor, a Welshman of Welsh royal lineage (1457-1509), and he was born in Pembroke Castle, Wales.
http://www.data-wales.co.uk/edmund_tudor.htm

"...the accession of the "Welsh Tudors" to the throne gave an impetus to a feeling of National [Welsh] pride, and a fervent loyalty to the Crown."
http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/essays/wales.htm
http://www.welshdragon.net/resources/people/ruler_britain.shtml

Answer 2

Henry VII (Henry Tudor)


1457 – 1509

Welsh-born King of England who founded the Tudor dynasty
His father was descended from the royal house of Gwynedd and he was born in Pembroke Castle

Answer 3

Henry VII was descended from the Welsh line of Ap Tudor.

Plus Wales was not a province annexed by England. Wales was a collection of states similar to England which over the process of a few hundred years slowly came together as one through marriages and conquest. The last Welsh princes were the last few to be brought to the union.

Answer 4

Sorry, ireland_wins, but England wasn't a single kingdom in 44 BC. The English (aka the Angles and Saxons) invaded after the Romans left in 405/406 AD, and the entity we now think of as England evolved gradually over the following 600 years, or thereabouts.

The last English king was Harold Godwinson, who, in 1066, reputedly took the warning to "Watch that arrow" somewhat too literally.

Answer 5

Henry Tudor was a prince of Welsh decent who invaded with a small French force and took the crown in the War of the Roses

Answer 6

so yes, as the rest of the answers have said, Henry Tudor (Henry VII) was of welsh origin, but there has never been an english king or queen on the throne, since 44 BC.
Romans + French (William the Conquerer) + Scottish (The Stuarts) + German (The Hanoverians) + Greek (Prince Phillip).

Answer 7

I believe the Tudors were of Welsh stock, starting with Henry V11 grandson of Owen Tudor, a Welshman, and Queen Katherine, widow of Henry V. Their son Edmund Tudor Earl of Richmond married Margaret Beaufort the Lancastrian heiress and Henry's claim to the throne came through her.

Answer 8

The house of Tudor were of Welsh descent. Henry VII thru Elizabeth I

Answer 9

Henry Tudor was a Welshman. He became Henry VII and reigned from 1485 to 1509. His granddaughter Elizabeth I, though not being very Welsh, was loyal enough to her origins to wear a leek on St David's Day, so I have heard.

Answer 10

The founder of the royal Tudor dynasty was Henry VII's grandfather Owen Tudor, a well-born Welsh man who served as a squire of the body to England's King Henry V. The king died in 1422 and some years later his widow, Catherine of Valois, is said to have married the handsome Tudor, although it is possible they were never legally married.

Henry V was succeeded by his infant son, Henry VI. The new king (who became insane as an adult) was little more than a pawn in the so-called Wars of the Roses, a series of power struggles between the ruling House of Lancaster and the rival House of York. Owen Tudor was a staunch supporter of the king. In 1461 Tudor led an army into battle against Yorkists forces at Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire. The Yorkist side won; Tudor was killed; Henry VI lost his throne and the Yorkist claimant, Edward IV, became king.
Owen's son Edmund had married Margaret Beaufort, who was descended from King Edward III's son John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Edmund died while Margaret was pregnant with their first child, Henry, who was born on January 28, 1457 at Pembroke Castle in Wales. At first Henry was kept hidden in Wales by his uncle, Jasper Tudor. In 1471 Henry VI died - he may have been murdered - in the Tower of London, and Henry Tudor became the Lancastrian claimant to the throne. Fearing for his nephew's safety, Jasper Tudor smuggled him to Brittany (in France).

In 1483 Edward IV died suddenly and his young sons, Edward V and Richard, "disappeared" in the Tower of London. Their uncle, who had imprisoned the boys, swiftly crowned himself Richard III. Not surprisingly, he was an unpopular king. In 1485 Henry Tudor returned to Wales, raised an army, invaded England, and defeated Richard III at the battle of Bosworth Field. Richard died in the battle, and Henry Tudor became Henry VII,

In 1486 Henry married Richard's niece, Elizabeth of York, uniting the houses of Lancaster and York and ending the Wars of the Roses