Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March
One Family's Story
Author(s) David Stephenson
Language: English
Genre(s): Medieval
- November 2021 · 160 pages ·216x138mm
- · Paperback - 9781786838186
- · eBook - pdf - 9781786838193
- · eBook - epub - 9781786838209
About The Book
Endorsements
‘In this engaging study, David Stephenson shows how one Welsh gentry family successfully negotiated the challenges posed by foreign conquest in order to further their own interests, thereby throwing revealing new light on the realities of power in medieval Wales and its borders.’
Huw Pryce, Professor Emeritus of Welsh History, Bangor University
‘A brilliant study of a lesser Welsh family, whose two centuries in the service of the English Crown and great Marcher barons were packed with determined careerism, intrigue and, above all, upward social mobility.’
Dr Emma Cavell, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Swansea University
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Genealogical Chart
Map
Prologue: Crisis at Cefnllys
Chapter 1: Questions of Ancestry
Chapter 2: Diligence, Danger and Distinction:
The career of Hywel ap Meurig
Intermezzo: The sons of Hywel ap Meurig
Chapter 3. Philip ap Hywel: Administrative eminence and political peril
Chapter 4: The empire builders: Master Rees ap Hywel and his sons
Chapter 5: Continuity and new directions: Sir Philip Clanvowe
Chapter 6: The last of the line: the later Clanvowes
Chapter 7: Some reflections
Bibliography
Index