Pembrokeshire Deheubarth into Gwynedd. Norman/Flemish influence never fully recovered in West Wales. In 1138, the county of Pembrokeshire was named as a county palatine. Rhys ap Gruffydd, the son of Owain Gwynedd's daughter Gwenllian, re-established Welsh control over much of the region and threatened to retake all of Pembrokeshire, but died in 1197. After Deheubarth was split by a dynastic feud, Llywelyn the Great almost succeeded in retaking the region of Pembroke between 1216 and his death in 1240. In 1457, Henry Tudor was born at Pembroke Castle. He landed an army not far from his birthplace 28 years later in
Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire from the border with Carmarthenshire westwards to Haverfordwest, then northwards to Fishguard. Some improvements have been made since the 1990s but others were still the subject of discussion in 2014. The A477 from St. Clears to Pembroke Dock is long, of which only are dual carriageway. The Cleddau Bridge carries the A477, connecting South Pembrokeshire with North Pembrokeshire, across the Cleddau Estuary. The A478 traverses eastern Pembrokeshire from Tenby in the south to Cardigan, Ceredigion in the north, a distance of . The A487 is the other major route, running northwest from Haverfordwest to St David's, then northeast following