By Max Lieberman
This publication examines the making of the March of Wales and the the most important function its lords performed within the politics of medieval Britain among the Norman conquest of britain of 1066 and the English conquest of Wales in 1283. Max Lieberman argues that the Welsh borders of Shropshire, that have been first, from c. 1165, known as Marchia Wallie, supply a paradigm for the construction of the March. He reassesses the function of William the Conqueror's tenurial cost within the making of the March and sheds new mild at the ways that seigneurial administrations labored in a cross-cultural context. ultimately, he explains why, from c. 1300, the March of Wales incorporated the conquest territories in south Wales in addition to the hugely self reliant border lordships. This e-book makes an important and unique contribution to frontier stories, investigating either the construction and the altering notion of a medieval borderland.
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69 In geographical terms, the usage of Marchia by the Welsh rulers and their scribes broadly parallels that found in English documents. 71 There is no instance in the documents which have come down to us of a Welsh ruler identifying a part of south Wales as lying in the March. If Welsh usage conformed to that of twelfth- and thirteenthcentury English scribes in that respect, it did not become as standardized. 73 This linguistic coinage is not paralleled in the surviving Welsh acts for any of the other border counties.
The expression appears to have been communicated to the Welsh rulers early in the thirteenth century, through diplomatic channels as it were. The March is not mentioned in King John’s treaty 59 See, for example,TNA C 141/2 (20) (Martin Ferrers, inquisition held in 1484);TNA C 141/6 (20) (Roger Barewe, 1485). 60 TNA C 142/59 (78) (William Edmunds: writ and inquisition refer to ‘the March of Wales adjacent to Gloucestershire’, inquisition finds the fees of Usk and of Caerleon to lie in the March of Wales).
In any case, whether or not Continental usages of the term can help us understand why it appears in a medieval British context, they do illustrate that it carried certain fundamental connotations which could adapt to local circumstances. There is certainly some overlap between the originally Carolingian meaning of the term – that of a border region under the command of a deputy – and the modern historiographical concept of the March of Wales as a collection of lordships. 37 The phrase barones Marchie, J.