Rhun Emlyn

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

And after a while, Wales seemed to have a nut to crack, I suppose, to many of these marching lords.

And they looked across at Ireland...

And when the opportunity arose, there was an exiled king of Ireland, King of Leinster, who invited the Normans to help him to invade his country.

And so they thought, well, Ireland might be an easier prospect than what they were facing in Wales.

Yeah, it is an interesting situation which they found themselves in.

Obviously, the King of England is their overlord, and yet their lordships fall outside of the Kingdom of England in many ways.

So they hold power by the 13th, 14th century.

They hold power which elsewhere is exercised by the king.

So the exercise of justice.

They're the universal landlord.

Everyone holds their land from them in the lordship.

They also have the power to wage war, to have their private armies, have treaties with Welsh rulers to fight wars against one another, which wouldn't be thinkable in their English territories.

And there was all sorts of other powers which were usually held by kings.

So whether that's raising taxes, establishing boroughs, they have the right to royal fish, such as sturgeons and porpoise and other things.

So all these minor details which colour the image of the type of power that they had

And you see this encapsulated in a number of different examples.

I mean, here was already referred to one of the best examples of Walter Clifford, you know, who sort of had the messenger eat the seal.

Another example, the 14th century, of John Charlton, lord of Powys, whose mantra seemed to have been, you know, I am pope, I am king, I am bishop and abbot in my land.

So in the sense that the king has no right to exercise justice in his lordship.

I suppose what complicates matter as well, though, is that the king could also be a martial lord.

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