Rhun Emlyn
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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which they failed miserably in doing so.
So sometimes the land was taken back by Welsh kings quite quickly.
So in some places we don't see much of a trace, but if you turn to places like the south of Pembrokeshire today, the part that was more heavily colonised by Flemish settlers...
In that context, people from Flanders in the north of modern-day Belgium.
Then you can see in terms of field patterns and place names and culture that they are remains really of that marcher pattern.
So that happened at the beginning of the 12th century.
So Henry I, King of England,
He'd taken personal possession of that part of South Pembrokeshire.
And I suppose he decided he needed a loyal population that relied upon him in that area.
So he introduced the Flemish people there.
Where were those Flemish people living at the time?
Well, they'd moved... So I suppose...
We think of Normans as being a homogenous group, but with the Normans, multiple other people came.
Well, right in England as well, you had Normans, you had Bretons, and you had Flemish as well.
Some of them had settled in part of England first and then were moved to that part of South Pembrokeshire.
It's that part where we have the clearest evidence of wholesale change of population, where the native population are moved specifically and a new population are brought in.
And it's not just the March of Lords as well, it's the communities of the different Lordships.
And in a sense, you have a lot of these conflicts, these feuds between the different March of Lordships.
And one of the things, as we haven't really reflected as much on, is the lawless nature, or at least the lawless characterisation of the March of Lordships.
One of the reasons why they were ended in the end is because you could flee justice by just going over the border into the next Lordship and considering somewhere like, hey, you know, Glaesbury was another Lordship.
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