Pembroke

Pembroke was a marcher lordship on the Welsh frontier, centred on Pembroke Castle. In 1337 the castle belonged to the Hastings family, who inherited it from the de Valence family. Edward I had used it as a base for his conquest of Wales.

The lordship returned to the Crown in 1389 and was granted to Jasper Tudor in 1452. His nephew, the future Henry VII, was born in the castle in 1457. In 1648 Oliver Cromwell took the castle after a seven-week siege and ordered it destroyed.