Rees Davies

Sir Robert Rees Davies, (6 August 1938 – 16 May 2005) was a Welsh historian.

Biography Davies was born near Llandderfel, Merionethshire, and educated at Bala Grammar School. He was bilingual in Welsh and English. He received a First in his degree from University College London in 1959, later returning there as a lecturer in 1963. In 1959 he undertook a two-year postgraduate study of the Duchy of Lancaster's Welsh lordships in the later Middle Ages at Merton College, Oxford under the supervision of K. B. McFarlane.

In 1966, he married Carys Lloyd Wynne, with whom he had one son and one daughter.

Professor Sir Rees Davies died of cancer in Oxford, aged 66.

Works 1978 Lordship and Society in the March of Wales, 1282–1400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press) 1984 Welsh Society and Nationhood: Historical Essays Presented to Glanmor Williams, jointly edited (Cardiff: University of Wales Press ) 1987 Conquest, Coexistence, and Change: Wales, 1063–1415, part of the Oxford History of Wales (Oxford: Clarendon Press) 1987 Wales: the Age Of Conquest, 1063–1415 1988 The British Isles, 1100–1500: Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections (Edinburgh: J. Donald Publishers) 1990 Domination and Conquest: the Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100–1300 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press) 1995 The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press ) 2000 The Age of Conquest: Wales, 1063–1415 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press) 2000 The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles: 1093–1343 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press) 2002 Owain Glyn Dwr: trwy ras Duw, Tywysog Cymru (Talybont, Ceredigion: Y Lolfa, in Welsh) English translation by Gerald Morgan: Owain Glyndwr: Prince of Wales (Talybont, Ceredigion: Y Lolfa, 2009) 2004 From Medieval to Modern Wales: Historical Essays in Honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths, edited with Geraint H. Jenkins, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press) 2009 Lords and Lordship in the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Brendan Smith, (Oxford: Oxford University Press)