"Grenzgänger"

Bibliographic data

Bibliographic data

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Persistent identifier:
1655725092
URN:
urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-sulbdigital-226447
Title:
"Grenzgänger"
Author:
Schneider, Reinhard
Place of publication:
Saarbrücken
Publisher:
SDV, Saarbrücker Dr. und Verl. Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Structure type:
Monograph
Collection:
Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Saarländische Landesgeschichte
Volume number:
33
Year of publication:
1998
Number of pages:
225 S.
Copyright:
Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Language:
eng
Digitised pages:
230

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Title:
A cross-border career: Giraldus Cambrensis between Wales and England
Author:
Pryce, Huw
Structure type:
Chapter
Collection:
Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Saarländische Landesgeschichte
Digitised pages:
16

Table of contents

Table of contents

  • "Grenzgänger"
  • Cover
  • Prepage
  • Title page
  • Imprint
  • Preface
  • Start page
  • Die Grenzgängerthematik in historischer Perspektive
  • Grenzgänger aus juristischer Sicht. Ausgewählte Probleme
  • Grenzgänger aus soziologischer Sicht
  • A cross-border career: Giraldus Cambrensis between Wales and England
  • "Ketzerboten" als Grenzgänger. Katharische Missionare auf der Flucht vor inquisitorischer Verfolgung
  • Mittelalterliche Grenzgänger aus Lothringen (an Hand französischer Personennamen im Oberelsaß)
  • Ein Verleger als Grenzgänger zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich: der Fall Albert Langen
  • Publizistische Grenzgänger im Zeitalter des Nationalismus - der Fall des Jean-Jacques Waltz, patriote alsacien
  • Grenzgängerprobleme aus sorbischer Sicht
  • Zwischen "sorbischer Innen- und deutscher Außenperspektive". Grenz-Werte einer Mischkultur im Lausitzer Braunkohlentagebaugebiet
  • Grenzgänger an der deutsch-polnischen Grenze - unter geographischem Blickwinkel
  • Grenzgänger "von Amts wegen" - die interkommunale grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit im Saar-Lor-Lux-Raum
  • Grenzgänger zwischen den Sprachen. Eine Umfrage zu Sprachenwahl und zu Spracheinstellungen in der Saar-Lor-Lux-Region
  • 30 Jahre Grenzgänger in Luxemburg (1965-1995)
  • Landwirte als Grenzgänger. Schweizerischer Auslandsanbau im deutschen Hochrheingebiet
  • Schlußbetrachtung und Ausblick
  • Biographische Angaben
  • Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Saarländische Landesgeschichte und Volksforschung
  • Cover

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ties for individuals to travel between England and Wales, be they secular lords, 
bishops, monks or merchants.5 
At the same time the creation of Norman lordships in Wales accentuated the political 
fragmentation of the country, injecting new ethnic and cultural divisions into what 
has been aptly described as a country ‘of plural frontiers’.6 Of no region was this 
truer than Dyfed in south-west Wales, the birth-place of the churchman, scholar and 
author who is the subject of this paper: Giraldus Cambrensis or Gerald de Barri.7 
Giraldus’s maternal grandmother, Nest, was the daughter of the Welsh king of 
Dyfed, Rhys ap Tewdwr, killed by the Normans in 1093; Dyfed swiftly fell to the 
Normans and was divided into a number of small lordships. Among the early Nor¬ 
man conquerors in the region was Giraldus’s maternal grandfather, Gerald of Wind¬ 
sor, castellan of Pembroke, who married Nest ‘with the object of giving himself and 
his troops a firmer foothold in the country.’8 Giraldus’s father, William de Barri, was 
a minor Norman lord whose castle lay at Manorbier. By ancestry, then, Giraldus was 
three-quarters Norman and one quarter Welsh, the product of intermarriage which 
was a fairly common characteristic in the Welsh March.9 This mixed ancestry was to 
play an important part in his career, for he was related, not only to leading Norman 
families in south-west Wales, but also to the native ruling house represented by the 
successors of his great-grandfather, Rhys ap Tewdwr. When Giraldus was bom, c. 
1146, this house was beginning to revive its power, notably at the expense of the 
Clare lords of Ceredigion and the Cliffords of Llandovery. Just over twenty years 
later, in 1169, many of Giraldus’s relatives, including two of his elder brothers, 
seized the opportunity to seek new fortunes in Ireland by participating in the Anglo- 
Norman intervention prompted by the request for military help from the exiled king 
of Leinster, Diarmait Mac Murchada.10 Giraldus thus came from a region of shifting 
borders and also, more importantly, from a family well used to negotiating the 
frontiers between natives and incomers in south-west Wales. 
5 See e.g. Ralph A. Griffiths, Medieval Severnside: The Welsh Connection, in: R. R. Davies 
et al. (eds.), Welsh Society and Nationhood, Cardiff 1984, pp. 70-89; Huw Pryce, In 
Search of a Medieval Society: Deheubarth in the Writings of Gerald of Wales, in: Welsh 
History Review 13 (1986-7) pp. 274-5. 
6 Davies, Conquest (as n. 1) pp. 3-15; R. R. Davies, Frontier Arrangements in Fragmented 
Societies: Ireland and Wales, in: Robert Bartlett and Angus MacKay (eds.), Medieval 
Frontier Societies, Oxford 1989, pp. 77-100 (quotation at p. 80). 
' On Dyfed, see Rowlands (as n. 1) and Pryce, Deheubarth (as n. 5). Of the extensive 
secondary literature on Gerald, see especially Michael Richter, Giraldus Cambrensis, 2nd 
edn, Aberystwyth 1976; Robert Bartlett, Gerald of Wales 1146-1223, Oxford 1982. 
8 Giraldus, Opera 6 p. 91. 
9 A. J. Roderick, Marriage and Politics in Wales, 1066-1282, in: Welsh History Review 4 
(1968-9) pp. 4-8, 11-12. 
10 Marie Therese Flanagan, Irish Society, Anglo-Norman Settlers, Angevin Kingship: Inter¬ 
actions in Ireland in the Late Twelfth Century, Oxford 1989, pp. 140-53. 
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