Abstract
The lords of the Welsh March were outside the sphere of the king's courts of common law; they had the right to build castles without royal licence: and they had the right of levying war. The Norman conquest of England was accomplished in less than twenty years, and embraced the whole of England. The detailed transactions by which the Normans effected their penetrations of England and of the Welsh March are hidden from view, but luckily the results of the two processes, as far as they had gone by 1086, are described in Domesday Book. In short, according to Domesday Book the Normans penetrated into Wales, and thereby created the March of Wales, not simply by acquiring Welsh lands, but by acquiring Welsh commotes, or groups of commotes. Historically, the contrast between Normanized England and the Normanized March of Wales was a prolongation of the previously existing contrast between Saxon England and Welsh Wales.
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