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Primary Title Family Seat The Marquess of Anglesey: Plas Newydd, Anglesey, Wales [1]: The Marquess of Milford Haven: The Earl of Carnarvon: Highclere Castle, Hampshire, England [2] ...
This is an index of Welsh peers and baronets whose primary peerage, life peerage, and baronetcy titles include a Welsh place-name origin or its territorial qualification [clarification needed] is within the historic counties of Wales. Welsh-titled peers derive their titles from a variety of sources.
The Lords of Welsh areas once belonging to monarchies. They were ruled by the direct descendants and heirs of Kings in Wales from around the time of the Norman invasion of Wales (1000s), some of which lasted until after the conquest of Wales by Edward I (c. 1300s), and in a few instances, Welsh baronies lasted later into the Principality of Wales.
List of family seats of Welsh nobility; B. Baron Bergavenny; J. Jones of Hendwr; L. Lords of Cemais; W. Welsh peers and baronets; Winifred, Countess of Dundonald
Wales in the early Middle Ages was a society with a landed warrior aristocracy, [45] and after c. 500 Welsh politics were dominated by kings with territorial kingdoms. [46] The legitimacy of the kingship was of paramount importance, [47] the legitimate attainment of power was by dynastic inheritance or military proficiency. [48]
This is the family tree of the kings of the respective Welsh medieval kingdoms of Gwynedd, Deheubarth and Powys, and some of their more prominent relatives and heirs as the direct male line descendants of Cunedda Wledig of Gwynedd (401 – 1283), and Gwrtheyrn of Powys (c. 5th century – 1160), then also the separate Welsh kingdoms and petty kingdoms, and then eventually Powys Fadog until the ...
From Ednyfed's many sons would come a 'ministerial aristocracy' in northern Wales. [4] He left the manors of Trecastell , Penmynydd and Erddreiniogin, Anglesey to those of his sons born to his second marriage to Gwenllian, daughter of king Rhys ap Gruffydd of Deheubarth ; among these sons was Goronwy (died 1268), founder of the line of the ...
However, Richard's son Walter is the first recorded landholder at Cantref Selyff. Furthermore, Bernard enfeoffed the sons of the king he had displaced in the less habitable land, thereby creating a loyal Welsh aristocracy and extracting more out of his land than the Normans otherwise knew how to do. [17]