Huw Pryce

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In Our Time · The Welsh Marches · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

But also an important result of the conquest is that Edward rewards some of his friends and followers with new marcher lordships carved out of the sort of eastern part of the old principality of Gwynedd, so in north-east Wales, so you have the lordship of Gwynedd.

Rithyn or Dufferin Cloyd, Lordship of Denby, Bromfield and Yale and so on.

So these are new creations and they in turn have new settlers coming in both to the countryside and to the towns there.

So the march has in fact expanded and the fragmentation of Wales is in a sense increased but now instead of there being what was called before the conquest, Pura Walia or Welsh Wales and Marchia Walia the March of Wales, now you have

the royal principality of Wales, if you like, the principality of North Wales and South Wales, and then the March of Wales.

So the configurations changed.

Any of you.

Well, there were hundreds.

I mean, it's thought to be one of the most densely sort of castellated areas of, I think, Europe, really, and certainly in Britain.

because of the history of conquest and to-ing and fro-ing.

So, yeah, I wouldn't put a number on it.

Well, I think Gerald is really interesting.

He's of a sort of mixed parentage.

So his grandmother was Nest, a daughter of this King Rhys I mentioned a bit earlier, who was killed in 1093 on his mother's side.

So he's partly Welsh.

He's related to the Welsh Prince of South West Wales.

But his father is Lord of Manabir in southern Pembrokeshire, quite a small Marcher lordship.

But his relatives and him both have a lot of connections with the Welsh still.

And Gerald clearly thought that their sort of hybrid, their mixed ancestry was a great plus.

You know, they celebrated the Welsh side of it.

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