Rhun Emlyn

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

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So the Clanvo family of Herges Court near Kington is one of these families.

So there were opportunities for those who were willing to grasp the opportunity and those who had a bit of luck as well.

Helen, you wanted to come in there.

Yes, so the rebellion begins in 1400 in the northeast of Wales.

And I suppose I've already mentioned some of the opportunities, but clearly there were tensions under the surface as well.

And many of them could be felt across the marches.

So clearly this discrimination against the Welsh was an important matter.

Being Welsh at the time was, in a way, an ethnic legal status, not just an identity, as we might think of it.

So there were various restrictions, legal restrictions.

Officially, at least, they weren't supposed to hold high office if you were Welsh.

And also economic restrictions.

In many places, the Welsh were not supposed to be burgesses, have this economic status in the towns.

So, for example, in Brecon, officially, you had to be a whole Englishman to be a burgess.

You had to have an English mother and an English father.

If you had a Welsh parent at all... And a burgess gave you what sort of rights?

So that gave you economic rights to, within the town, to have the status in the town, to have the benefit of...

the trading in the town of the tolls in the town and basically the burgesses had an economic monopoly over the surrounding area and the welsh were excluded from that well it depended from town to town so some places they were allowed other places officially like brecon they weren't although we know of one or two welshmen who sneaked in um and so it wasn't completely enforced all the time so so this discrimination was a real source of tension

You also had the fact that the Welsh also were, in a way, exploited economically.

The Marchal Lords were exploiting their lordships, using them to fill farms or farming the land around

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