The Twelfth Century Perrot Family in Wales
A Tudor Forgery?

First Normans in Wales

'After the death of Rhys ap Tewdwr in 1093 all that was worth having went to French-speaking soldiers, from Monmouth to St. David’s; only the barren hills and remote wooded retreats were left to the country's ancient denizens. Such was the position in South Wales at the death of Henry 1 in 1135.' J.E.Lloyd

THE TWELFTH CENTURY PERROT FAMILY IN WALES - A TUDOR FORGERY?
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

( draft journal article weblink)

"Above all, as his reign progressed, Henry 1 used the Welsh Marches as a pool of rewards often favouring lesser families who could be expected seriously to pursue the task of imposing Norman control. There are many uncertainties in our knowledge of the descent of castles and lordships in the period before 1200. A fully documented check-list of these is an urgent desideratum of Welsh medieval scholarship." Age of Conquest: Wales 1063-1415 by R.R.Davies.

"Another feature of the Anglo-Norman penetration, as shown by the pedigrees and other evidences, is the large amount of intermarriage that took place between the Welsh and their conquerors. This intermarriage had been employed by the ruling houses from early times as a matter of policy. [...] The Anglo-Normans married Welsh women also as a matter of policy, and this is especially noticeable in the pedigrees of South Wales families. The Turbervilles and Perrotts, Malefants and Butlers, Flemings and Berkerolles, all acquired property and peaceful possession by espousing Welsh wives." An Approach to Welsh Genealogy by Francis Jones.

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3. R.K.Turvey, Unpublished Doctoral Thesis (Swansea University 1988).
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