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Lords of the Central Marches - English Aristocracy and Frontier Society, 1087-1265 (Hardcover)
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Lords of the Central Marches - English Aristocracy and Frontier Society, 1087-1265 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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In the Middle Ages, the March between England and Wales was a
contested, militarised frontier zone, a "land of war." With English
kings distracted by affairs in France, English frontier lords were
left on their own to organize and run lordships in the manner that
was best suited to this often violent borderland. The centrepiece
of the frontier society that developed was the feudal honor and its
court, and in the March it survived as a functioning entity much
longer than in England. However, in the twelfth century, as the
growing power of the English crown threatened Marcher honors, their
lords asserted their independence from the king's courts, and the
March became a land where "the king's writ did not run." At the
same time, the increased military capability of their Welsh
adversaries put the Marcher lordships under enormous military and
financial strain.
Brock Holden describes how this unusual frontier society developed
in reaction to both the challenge of the native Welsh and the power
of the English kings. Through a multi-faceted
examination-political, economic, social, legal, and military-of the
lordships of the Central March of Wales, it examines how the
"feudal matrix" of Marcher power developed over the course of the
eleventh to thirteenth centuries.
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