It was under the Plantagenets, particularly Henry II, Edward I, and Edward III, that England first unified itself and then imposed unity on the rest of the British Isles. When they came to power within a century of the Norman Conquest, England was little more than a colonized realm governed from abroad, but by the time they lost their position nearly a third of a millennium later, she was a unitary state with her own administrative and legal system.
The Mighty—and Overlooked—Reign of the Plantagenets - The Daily Beast
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