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

by Timothy Venning

Book Overview

New paperback edition - Explores the history of the Marcher Lords through their turbulent history on the Welsh frontier from trusted nobles to individual powerhouses and eventually to kings themselves.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398119490
• ISBN13: 9781398119499
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.8"