The English Isles

Native lordship in medieval Scotland

The earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c.1140–1365

Cynthia J. Neville

In the century or so after 1125 significant numbers of Anglo-Norman and European noblemen settled in Scotland at the invitation of the crown, chiefly in the low…

The Earldom of Desmond, 1463–1583

The decline and crisis of a feudal lordship

Anthony M. McCormack

Descended from one of the first Anglo-Norman invaders in the late 1160s, the Fitzgerald earls of Desmond came to dominate the political, economic and social lif…

Colonial Ireland, 1169–1369

Robin Frame

Between 1169 and around 1240, large parts of Ireland were occupied by members of an Anglo-Norman upper class, which had already advanced into Wales and which wa…

The Geraldines and medieval Ireland

The making of a myth

Peter Crooks & Seán Duffy, editors

Geraldines (or FitzGeralds) are the most celebrated of the dynasties established in Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion; and the dynasty’s most cel…