Free Download Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D26WDZC9 | 2024 | 11 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Timothy Venning
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
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 Norman and Plantagenet kings to protect the dangerous frontiers of the realm. In Wales, as in Ireland, the smaller size and military weakness of divided neighbouring states encouraged conquest, with the seized lands enhancing the power of the aggressive English lords. They were granted ever greater authority by the monarch, to the point where they believed they ruled like kings. They intermarried, schemed for extra lands and snatched power in a complex and often violent political process.