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Arrogant Trespass: Anglo - Norman Wexford 1169-1400

Arrogant Trespass: Anglo - Norman Wexford 1169-1400

by Billy Colfer
Arrogant Trespass: Anglo - Norman Wexford 1169-1400

Arrogant Trespass: Anglo - Norman Wexford 1169-1400

by Billy Colfer

Overview

Arrogant Trespass is the first sustained treatment of the Anglo-Normans in Wexford since Orpen's century-old work. Profusely illustrated, meticulously researched and tightly written, this model study has stood the test of time and is now a classic of Wexford history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781846828225
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Publication date: 12/06/2019
Edition description: None
Pages: 316
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Billy Colfer (1939-2013) was a native of Slade, on the Hook Peninsula, Co. Wexford. A graduate of St Patrick's College, Drumconfra, he taught at CBS Wexford until his retirement in 1997. This book, first published in 2002 by Duffry Press, is based on his doctoral thesis, which he submitted to Trinity College Dublin in 2000. His other publications include The Hook Peninsula (2004), Wexford: a town and its landscape (2008) and Wexford castles: landscape, context and settlement (2013).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations x

List of Abbreviations xiii

Preface xiv

Acknowledgements xv

Chapter 1 Pre-Norman society and settlement 1

Chapter 2 The arrival of the Anglo-Normans 25

Chapter 3 William Marshal 46

Chapter 4 The partition of Leinster 71

Chapter 5 Sub-infeudation and manorial organisation 83

Chapter 6 Nucleated settlement: manorial villages, boroughs and towns 131

Chapter 7 Monastic grants and church lands 183

Chapter 8 Survival and decline 223

Glossary 249

Appendix 1 Knights' fees in county Wexford 251

Appendix 2 Names of settlers recorded in county Wexford 1169 -1324 256

Appendix 3 Possible manorial villages 267

Appendix 4 Boroughs and towns 269

Appendix 5 Map sources and photo credits 273

Bibliography 274

Index 287

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