Helen Fulton
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They were the great magnates of their day.
They were earls and dukes, people who'd been ennobled by William the Conqueror and his successors.
So these were very large land owners.
So they had estates in the March, but they also had estates elsewhere in England and increasingly in Ireland as well from the later 12th century.
They held lands in Ireland as well.
So, for example, Hay and Brecon and Radnor were owned for a long time by the very powerful de Breus family in the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
And that family of de Breus's, a Norman family, also owned lands in England, France and Ireland.
And later on in the 15th century, the town of Oswestry, which formed its own little centre for a marcher lordship around Oswestry, that town and the lands around it were owned for a long time by the Fitzallen family, the Earls of Arundel.
And they owned Oswestry from about the late 12th century right through to the 16th century in an almost unbroken line.
And they were a very powerful family, the Earls of Arundel.
And of course, they owned Arundel Castle in West Sussex near Brighton, and also very large amounts of land in Norfolk and Suffolk.
So they're another example of one of these powerful marcher lords families that also owned lots of land elsewhere.
Yes, it was written in the late 14th century and it's a very interesting example of a praise poem written in Welsh to an English monarch in the late 14th century.
Welsh court poetry was a very vibrant and dynamic cultural movement.
phenomenon, and we have a very, very large body of court poetry in Welsh surviving, mostly written to Welsh patrons, but also increasingly during the 14th and 15th centuries, written to marcher lords and their families.
But the poem to Edward III, I think, is quite unusual, being written to an actual monarch.
And I think the whole point was not that Edward III was ever going to read it or understood any Welsh, but the idea was to show him that the Welsh were supportive of the king's efforts during the Hundred Years' War.
So the poem mentions the seizure of Calais, for example.
In 1347, Edward III seized Calais.
And in fact, the English owned Calais right up until the middle of the 16th century.
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