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Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March - One Family's Story (Paperback)
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Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March - One Family's Story (Paperback)
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This is the first full-length study of a Welsh family of the
thirteenth to fifteenth centuries who were not drawn from the
princely class. Though they were of obscure and modest origins, the
patronage of great lords of the March - such as the Mortimers of
Wigmore or the de Bohun earls of Hereford - helped them to become
prominent in Wales and the March, and increasingly in England. They
helped to bring down anyone opposed by their patrons - like
Llywelyn, prince of Wales in the thirteenth century, or Edward II
in the 1320s. In the process, they sometimes faced great danger but
they contrived to prosper, and unusually for Welshmen one branch
became Marcher lords themselves. Another was prominent in Welsh and
English government, becoming diplomats and courtiers of English
kings, and over some five generations many achieved knighthood.
Their fascinating careers perhaps hint at a more open society than
is sometimes envisaged.
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