The dissolution of Strata Florida Abbey in Ceredigion, the great Cistercian mother church of Wales and burial place of Welsh princes, provoked significant local resistance. Welsh people who regarded the abbey as a sacred repository of Welsh national memory confronted crown agents. Armed locals had to be dispersed. The dissolution of Strata Florida was seen across Wales as a profound cultural wound.
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