Abstract
Abstract This chapter analyses the key role of patronage relationships in the display and preservation of family memory in the March of Wales. It focuses on a set of historical texts produced at Llanthony Priory for the lords of Brecon and short histories of the earldoms of Gloucester and Hereford, all of which delineate complicated lines of succession in families that persistently lacked male heirs. These texts, several of which are previously unedited, reveal the importance of the relationship between family and monastery, a mutually beneficial contract that allowed not only for the preservation of memory in the form of prayers for souls of the deceased, monuments, and epitaphs, but also for the writing of family histories. It thus positions family memory as a collective effort, relying on recorded events beyond an individual lifespan and therefore dependent on other people’s acts of preservation in the form of textual production.
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