Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 11:53 AM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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MorcellatedSee Morcellation. |
MorcellationLand divided up repeatedly by cyfran or gavelkind. |
Morgans of TredegarOwned vastly wealthy estate and industrial resources – lived in Tredegar Park. |
Morganwg, IoloSee Iolo Morgannwg. |
MormonsMembers of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith in Salt Lake City, USA. |
Morris LettersLetters of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (Lewis, Richard, William and John), known as ‘Morrisiaid Môn’. |
Morris, Lewis(1701–65) Poet, antiquary and surveyor; one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey. |
MortgageMoney obtained by providing land as security. |
Mortimer, RogerDied 1282. One of the great adversaries of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd who defeated Mortimer in 1262 and 1266, obtaining substantial areas of Mortimer lands by the Treaty of Montgomery 1267. |