Rhun Emlyn
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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So he could be king, but also certain lordships fell into royal hands.
And so the king had these rights as a martial lord in certain parts of Wales, rather than as king, in a sense.
Yeah, well, interesting.
I mean, you've already referred to the fact that this is a period of flourishing of Welsh culture in many ways.
In a sense, there was peace, which allows some of these things to develop.
And I suppose there were opportunities as well.
There was lots of discrimination and prejudice against the Welsh in the marches.
But for those...
of high status, what we call the Eichelwyr, the squire arc in Wales, the leaders of Welsh society.
Those of them who were willing to work with the regime, whether that's in the Principality with the King of England, but in the marches where they're marcher lords, there were positions that they could have.
to serve their March of Lords.
And I suppose they were necessary for the March of Lords.
It was necessary for March of Lords to have these people to connect the Lords to the communities over which they had rule, people who could move...
..smoothly from Welsh society to English society... ..and could flourish and have opportunities from that.
Recently, I've looked at a family called the Cuffin family... ..in the Lordship of Chirk in Oswestry, in that area.
And they managed to successfully have power... ..underneath the rule of the Fitzallen Lords.
One interesting example, a man called Howell Cuffin, who was a cleric... ..who had the patronage of his March of Lords... ..to maintain, to have power in the church... ..to have these positions in the church...
and to become a wealthy landowner as well.
Another family closer to this area is the dynasty of the descendants of a man called Hywel Ap Meirig.
David Stevenson has written a book on this recently, tracking the history of the family from obscure minor Eichelwyr, serving the Mortimer dynasty, the Bowen dynasty of March of Lords, serving the Crown, and ultimately some of them becoming minor March of Lords themselves,
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