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The urban networks of Anglo-Norman Meath and the Teutonic Order's Kulmerland: a comparative analysis

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Anna Maleszka
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This article presents comparative research on the role of towns and urban networks in the process of constructing space during conquest and colonization in selected ‘non-Roman’ regions of Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It focuses on Kulmerland in Prussia and Meath in Ireland. In both regions, the creation of urban networks and new regional spaces entailed the use of pre-existing settlement. However, reception intensity was determined by both the state of preservation of the earlier settlement and the needs of territorial authorities. This comparison shows ways of using symbolic potential (names, central places) and former settlement points for the construction of cities. In both territories, the functions of central places were particularized due to subinfeudation.

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Urban History , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , November 2022 , pp. 672 - 689
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We are very grateful to Prof. Dr Matthew Stevens for insightful comments and his help in proofreading the text. The article is a result of research implemented thanks to the funds allocated upon the PRELUDIUM grant agreement no. UMO-2016/23/N/HS3/00660 by the National Science Centre, Poland. The shortened version of this article was presented at the ‘Space and Settlement’ conference on 22–3 March 2019 in Trinity College Dublin.

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34 Cf. Hoare, ‘The evolution’, 87–9.

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59 As many as 18 in the territory of modern Meath County; see Murphy, ‘Rural settlement’, 158. The remaining towns were established in Westmeath; see below.

60 Graham, ‘Medieval settlements’, 54; French, ‘Hugh’, 188.

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62 So-called subinfeudation and encastellation; see Veach, Lordship, 247; Graham, ‘Anglo-Norman settlement’, 226; Murphy, ‘Rural settlement’, 157.

63 Noel French indicated that de Lacy retained six areas as his demesne manors: Trim, Duleek, Kells, Clonard, Killare and Fore; see French, ‘Hugh’, 184; Margaret Murphy mentioned only the ones within Co. Meath, but included also the manor of Ratoath; see Murphy, ‘Rural settlement’, 157. The areas granted to Lacy's vassals; see Brady, ‘Anglo-Norman Meath’, 39.

64 Hogan, ‘The lands’, 123–6.

65 French, ‘Duleek’, 36; Downey, ‘Literature’, 103–14; O'Flynn, ‘Mael’, 135; Graham, ‘Urban genesis’, 6 (map).

66 Murphy, ‘Rural settlement’, 157.

67 It is probable that the grant of Meath to Hugh de Lacy was supposed to create a border zone protecting Dublin; see Veach, ‘Henry II's grant’, 75.

68 Graham, ‘Medieval settlements’, 42–3.

69 Graham, ‘Anglo-Norman settlement’, 226.

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72 McHugh, IHTA, no. 29: Drogheda, 2.

73 On the early development of Ratoath and Skryne (before 1200), see Graham, ‘Medieval settlements’, 54; French, ‘Hugh’, 190.

74 Graham, ‘Anglo-Norman settlement’, 226.

75 Veach, Lordship, 249.

76 On this and other mottes and/or stone castles in the Lordship of Meath, see particularly French, ‘Hugh’, 185; Brady, ‘Anglo-Norman Meath’, 39–40; on Ardnurcher, Ballyloughboe and Athleague, see Veach, Lordship, 84 and 184.

77 Veach, Lordship, 84.

78 G. Martin, ‘Plantation boroughs in medieval Ireland, with a handlist of boroughs to c. 1500’, in D. Harkness and M. O'Dowd (eds.), The Town in Ireland. Historical Studies XIII. Papers Read before the Irish Conference of Historians – Belfast 30 May–2 June, 1979 (Belfast, 1981), 43.

79 French, ‘Hugh’, 185.

80 Ibid., 190; Veach, Lordship, 249; on the history of Fore, see e.g. R. Masterson, ‘The early Anglo-Norman colonisation of Fore, Co. Westmeath’, Riocht na Midhe, 8 (2002), 44–60; R. Masterson, ‘The church and the Anglo-Norman colonisation of Ireland. A case study of the Priory of Fore’, Riocht na Midhe, 11 (2000), 60.

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82 L. Doran, ‘Communication routes through Longford and Roscommon and their associated settlements’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, 104 (2004), 71.

83 Byrne, ‘The trembling sod’, 19.

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85 Martin, ‘John’, 132; cf. H. Murtagh, IHTA, no. 6: Athlone (Dublin, 1994), 1.

86 G. Cunningham, The Anglo-Norman Advance into the South-West Midlands of Ireland, 1185–1221 (Roscrea, 1987), 62.

87 Cf. B. Graham, ‘Anglo-Norman colonization and the size and spread of the colonial town in medieval Ireland’, in Clarke and Simms (eds.), The Comparative History, vol. II, 359.

88 See also ibid., 361.

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90 Czaja, ‘Towns’, 82.

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92 From 1309, the castle in Marienburg was the main residence of the grand masters of the Teutonic Order.

93 Czaja, ‘Die Formung’, 261–3.

94 Graham, ‘Medieval settlements’, 40; M. Potterton, ‘The archaeology and history of medieval Trim, County Meath’, vol. I, National University of Ireland in Maynooth Ph.D. thesis, 2003, 55.

95 O'Conor and Fredengren, ‘Medieval settlement in Leitrim’, 79, 82; L. Shine, ‘Frontier settlement in Cavan in the high medieval period (1169–1550)’, in J. Cherry and B. Scott (eds.), Cavan: History and Society (Dublin, 2014), 127–38.

96 Doran, ‘Aspects’, 11.

97 Ibid.; Veach, Lordship, 249–51.

98 Cunningham, The Anglo-Norman Advance, 62.

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