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The Principality of Wales was a feudal vassal state originating during the time of the Angevin Empire in the Middle Ages. Like the other feudal territories within the Angevin Empire, the principality had home rule in the form of the Prince of Wales. Over the course of its history, three royal houses ruled the entity; first the House of Aberffraw, then the House of Plantagenet and finally the House of Tudor. Under the latter, a paternally Welsh dynasty who had conquered the Kingdom of England less than a century earlier in 1485, the entites of England and Wales were merged together with the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542.