A marcher lord (Welsh: barwn y mers) was a noble appointed by the king of England to guard the border (known as the Welsh Marches) between England and...
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especially the Welsh Marches a Marcher Lord March law This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Marcher. If an internal link led...
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claiming "marcher liberties".[citation needed] Under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542 introduced under Henry VIII, the jurisdiction of the marcher lords was...
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Earl of March (25 April 1287 – 29 November 1330), was an English nobleman and powerful marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland...
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The Lord Warden of the Marches was an office in the governments of Scotland and England. The holders were responsible for the security of the border between...
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– before 8 July 1214), medieval marcher lord Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore (1231–1282), a marcher lord Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer...
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right for Marcher Lords to wage private war the King tested this right in this case: he first called them before a court of their Marcher peers; then...
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Baron Mortimer of Chirk (c.1256 – 3 August 1326) was a 14th-century Marcher lord, notable for his opposition to Edward II of England during the Despenser...
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William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber (fl. 1135–1179) was a 12th-century Marcher lord who secured a foundation for the dominant position later held by...
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Gordon-Lennox (born 1994), Earl of March and Kinrara. Marcher Lords – English title for the Welsh Marches List of Marcher lordships McNeill 1911, p. 685....
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meaning "march" or "mark", that is, borderland, added to Graf, meaning "Count"); it is related semantically to the English title "Marcher Lord". As a noun...
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1231 – 27 October 1282), of Wigmore Castle in Herefordshire, was a marcher lord who was a loyal ally of King Henry III of England and at times an enemy...
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Baron Grey of Ruthyn (c. 1362 – 30 September 1440), a powerful Welsh marcher lord, succeeded to the title on his father's death in July 1388. Reginald...
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Roger Mortimer of Wigmore (section Lord of Maelienydd)
Roger de Mortimer (before 1153 – before 8 July 1214) was a medieval marcher lord, residing at Wigmore Castle in the English county of Herefordshire. Roger...
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Eva Marshal (category Articles with unsourced statements from March 2024)
the Earl and Countess of Pembroke. She married William de Braose, a marcher lord. She held de Braose lands and castles in her own right[verification needed]...
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Norman era, the term most often used is Marcher Lord, which is similar to, but not strictly the same as, a Palatine Lord. Nevertheless, a number of strictly...
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3rd feudal baron of Clare in Suffolk, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. A marcher lord in Wales, he was also the founder of Tonbridge Priory in Kent. Richard...
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Breton ancestry. He was a major landowner, a Marcher lord with large holdings in Shropshire, where he was the Lord of Oswestry, as well as in Norfolk and Sussex...
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John Fitzalan (1223–1267) (category Marcher lords)
Fitzalan II (1223–1267), Lord of Oswestry, Clun, and Arundel, was an English nobleman and Marcher Lord with lands in the Welsh Marches. The son and heir of...
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Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, and Isabel Marshal. He was also a powerful Marcher Lord in Wales and inherited the Lordship of Glamorgan upon the death of his...
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1104) was a Marcher Lord from the Montgomery lands in the Welsh Marches (border lands between Wales and England). In England, he was Lord of Wigmore in...
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uç bey or uch bey (Ottoman Turkish: اوج بگ, romanized: uc beğ, lit. 'marcher-lord') was the title given to semi-autonomous warrior chieftains during the...
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established by the Norman lord Robert de Say after the Norman invasion of England and went on to become an important Marcher lord castle in the 12th century...
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1255), was an Anglo-Welsh noblewoman, the daughter of Marcher Lord William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber and the legendary Maud de St. Valéry, who was...
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Walter de Clifford (c. 1160 – 17 January 1221) was a Welsh marcher lord, feudal baron of Clifford of Clifford Castle in Herefordshire and High Sheriff...
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marcher lords had the rank of marquess, though some were earls. On the evening of the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne...
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Baron Abergavenny (died c. 1162) was a Norman baron and a Marcher Lord in the Welsh Marches. It is believed he may have been born in Gloucester[citation...
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marcher lord on the Herefordshire border, who acquired Binley. Nest and Osbern had a daughter who married Bernard de Neufmarché, also a marcher lord....
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Philip de Braose, 2nd Lord of Bramber (c. 1070 – c. 1134) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Marcher Lord. Philip was born about 1070 to 1073, the son of...
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noblewoman and a wealthy co-heiress of her father, who was the powerful Marcher lord William de Braose, and of her mother, Eva Marshal, a co-heiress of the...
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