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Welsh politics were extremely volatile, even by medieval standards, with almost constant fighting between rival ruling dynasties, and an occasional tendency to spill across the border into England.

— Marc Morris William I: England's Conqueror (2016)

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Thanks to the Domesday Book, we know more about eleventh-century England than any other medieval society anywhere in the world.

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If the tumults of the eleventh century had taught the English anything, however, it was that a hereditary claim to power could easily be trumped by other factors. Violence was one, as the Vikings had shown. Virtue was another.

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