Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March

One Family's Story

David Stephenson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2021
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
9781786838186 (ISBN)

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This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble origins to becoming key players in the politics of thirteenth and fourteenth century Wales, as well as prominent advisers, diplomats and administrators for the English kings of the fourteenth century.

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.

David Stephenson is an Honorary Research Fellow in Medieval Welsh History at Bangor University. He is the author of Political Power in Medieval Gwynedd, Medieval Powys 1132–1293 and Medieval Wales, c.1050–1332.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Genealogical Chart
Map
Prologue: Crisis at Cefnllys
Chapter 1: Questions of Ancestry
Chapter 2: Diligence, Danger and Distinction:
The career of Hywel ap Meurig
Intermezzo: The sons of Hywel ap Meurig
Chapter 3. Philip ap Hywel: Administrative eminence and political peril
Chapter 4: The empire builders: Master Rees ap Hywel and his sons
Chapter 5: Continuity and new directions: Sir Philip Clanvowe
Chapter 6: The last of the line: the later Clanvowes
Chapter 7: Some reflections
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	Yes
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781786838186 / 9781786838186
Zustand	Neuware