Descent of Norman Lordships

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"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.<