North Alabama Historical Review Volume 4 North Alabama Historical Review, Volume 4, 2014 Article 2 2014 The Last Native Prince of Wales Andrew Finch University of North Alabama Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.una.edu/nahr Part of the Public History Commons Recommended Citation Finch, A. (2014). The Last Native Prince of Wales. North Alabama Historical Review, 4 (1). Retrieved from https://ir.una.edu/nahr/vol4/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UNA Scholarly Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in North Alabama Historical Review by an authorized editor of UNA Scholarly Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Last Native Prince of Wales Andrew Finch It is tradition in British royalty that the firstborn son of the reigning monarch receives the title “Prince of Wales”. Prince Charles, who is the son of Queen Elizabeth II, currently holds the title. All who hold the title must be of an English family and the English crown. However, at one time, there were princes of Wales who were of Welsh descent. The holders of the title “Prince of Wales” did not become completely English until around the year 1415. This is when the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales vanished. This man, who brought almost all of Wales under his control, was Owain Glyndŵr. Owain Glyndŵr, occasionally anglicized as “Owen Glendower”, was born sometime between 1349 and 1359 in the northeast of Wales, in what today would be in either the county of Powys or Wrexham.