Huw Pryce
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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One of his uncles, Robert FitzSteven, according to Gerald, he writes a book about the conquest of Ireland, in which his relatives have the starring sort of role there.
but he has Robert give a speech or he puts a speech in his mouth before a battle in Ireland and he addresses his followers and he says well we get our courage from the Trojans who are believed to be the ancestors of the Britons and thus the Welsh and our skill in arms from the Gauls the French so we've got this ideal combination and he's sort of celebrating that
And another source for that, The Conquest of Ireland, a French poem, says how the marches in Ireland would invoke St.
David in battle.
And indeed, Gerald had an uncle who was Bishop of St.
David's, and he himself famously hoped to become bishop and indeed archbishop of St.
David's.
But that's another story.
But I think as a voice for the hybridization of the march, he's really significant.
They were very profound, I think.
The historian Gwynalf Williams once wrote that the Normans made the Welsh a European people.
Now, I think that's exaggerated, but it does point to something important, that they certainly accelerate the introduction of things like, well, towns for the first time since the Romans, reformed monasticism, obviously knights,
castles very influential the round keeps of pembroke is sort of imitated both by the marches and the and the welsh um so the the topography the landscape of wales is is transformed in many ways not just in towns but in in the countryside and then um there are the cultural developments which we've heard about already um but they are you know they've been uh there for
200 years before the Edwardian conquest.
And there's this sort of legacy of a, you know, if you like, a gradual piecemeal conquest, which is bound to have had a big impact on Wales in the Middle Ages.
Well, political scientists have come up with various models of three Wales models and so on.
I mean, how sort of British Wales and a Welsh Wales and a sort of Frogymraeg or Welsh-speaking Wales, that was one which is quite dated now.
But how far they're connected to the medieval history is another question.
And this pattern is continuing to change.
So, you know, I think the main legacy is really...
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