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Paperback Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier Book

ISBN: 1398119490

ISBN13: 9781398119499

Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier

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For a medieval English king, delegation was a necessary evil; and nowhere more necessary - nor more potentially disastrous - than on the Anglo-Welsh borders. The Marcher lords first empowered by William I were relied upon by subsequent Norman and Plantagenet kings to protect the dangerous frontiers of the realm. In Wales, as in Ireland, the smaller size and military weakness of divided neighbouring states encouraged conquest, with the seized lands...

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