Huw Pryce
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as I was saying earlier, in the sort of physical landscape, and the urbanisation of Wales being perhaps the most marked effect of the marches.
Yes, and southern Pembrokeshire is known as Little England beyond Wales, and has been for a long time.
So, yeah, there's this sort of long, deeply seated English linguistic presence and the place names, and
In the Gower Peninsula, again, there was an English county there, not an English in Welsh Street, but an English in a Welsh county, and you then got the place names and so on.
But Pembrokeshire is particularly interesting.
And coming back to Gerald of Wales, he talks about, I think, one of his relatives anyway, who was still speaking Flemish in the early 13th century, so almost 100 years after the Flemings arrived, though Flemish did have to give way to English there over time.
Yeah, there was a famous dispute soon after the Edwardian conquest between the Lords of Glamorgan and Brecon and raiding each other and saying they had the right to do this within their march of liberties.
But Edward I steps in and they have to go before the royal court to sort this out.
So, you know, that is certainly a good example of them fighting each other.
I mean, there could be
conflicts within lordships as well but in this case I think that those two very powerful the born lords of Brecon and Gilbert de Clare in Glamorgan are you know big figures and they certainly attacking each other
But they did have sort of days of the march, I think, where they would meet at particular places to try and sort out, you know, and make peace.
So there were mechanisms, and I suspect boundaries were known, but of course they weren't always respected.
I don't think so.
The one thing I would have added, just as a more sort of observation, a comparison, is with Scotland.
There, the kings of Scotland, of course, settled Norman knights and so on.
It gives them large tracts of land in return for military service.
And, of course, they're absorbed into the kingdom of Scotland.
But the March of Wales is interesting because it's neither absorbed into the kingdom of England until the Acts of Union...
And instead, the Nords are trying to sort of escape the jurisdiction of the counties along the borders with England.
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