The 2022 Competition

First Prize – Harry Lewis

The Cistercian Order, Mountain Lords and Heresy in the Languedoc Borderlands, 1209-1244

Second Prize – Andy King

Lordship in the Plantagenet Empire: The Mortimers and Ireland in the Late-Fourteenth Century

Commendation – Amy Reynolds

An Age of Decline? Border Abbeys and Welsh culture in late medieval Wales

The 2021 Competition

Commendatory Prize (£350) – Miguel C. Fernandes

Diagrams, Poems, Dragons, Puns: The Mortimer Visual Project in the late fourteenth century

Commended: – Deborah Gentry

Finding Cornwall in Shropshire: Imaginary landscapes in Rhonabwy’s Dream and Fouke Fitz Waryn

The 2020 Competition

Commended – Alastair Dunn
Hexham: An Examination of a Border Liberty to c.1400

Commended – Patrick McDonagh
An Elegant Cold Collation: a lost letters patent to Sudbury 1397

Commended – Andrew Shell
Mortimer Mawr: The Magnanimity of the Mortimers of Wigmore in the Preservation of Welsh Identity

The 2019 Competition

Winner (£750) – Simon Egan
A task too great for one dynasty? The Mortimer earls of March, the de Burgh inheritance and the Gaelic nobility c.1370-c.1425

Second Prize (£300) – Connor Williams
Roger Mortimer, fourth earl of March – a study in minority, royal service and ‘proximity’ to the crown during the late 14th century

Commended – Doreen Bowen
A comparison of the development of two neighbouring townships, Wolstanmind/Trelystan (Welsh) and Marton (English) in the medieval Marches of Wales between 1066 and 1542

The 2018 Competition

Winner (£750) – Sara Elin Roberts
What’s Yours is Mine: Cyfraith Hywel and the Law of the March

The 2017 Competition

Winner (£750) – Emma Cavell
Periphery to Core: Mortimer Women and the negotiation of the King’s Justice in the thirteenth century March of Wales

Joint Runner-Up (£250) – Ethan Gould
Fishing in Troubled Waters: Scottish Intrigue and Interference in Wales 1315-1327

Joint Runner-Up (£250) – Matt Raven
The Loyal Mortimer: The Career of Roger Mortimer, second Earl of March

The 2016 Competition

Winner (£750) – Ian Bass
Miraculous Marches: The Cult of Thomas de Cantilupe and the Mortimers

Second Prize (£300) – Angharad Jones
Legal Culture in a medieval Marcher Lordship: a Comparative Analysis of the Dyffryn Clwyd Court Rolls

Commended – Ethan Gould
Heartless, Witless, Graceless, Thriftless: Roger Mortimer and the Scots 1326-1328

Commended – Craig Jones
How to make an Entrance: an overlooked aspect of native Welsh Masonry Design

Commended – Matthew Lampitt
Networking the March: A History of Hereford and its Region from the 11th through 13th centuries