'Sir Robert Rees Davies'
CBE (
August 6,
1938 -
May 16,
2005), was a noted
Welsh historian.
He was born in
Merionethshire, and educated at
Bala grammar school,
University College, London - where he later returned as a lecturer - and
Merton College in
Oxford, where he studied with
K. B. McFarlane. In
1995 he was appointed the
Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. Davies was apointed a
Knight Bachelor for services to history in the Queen's New Years Honours List in January 2005.
External link
★
A tribute to Rees Davies
Works
★ ''Lordship and Society in the March of Wales, 1282-1400'' (1978)
★ ''Wales: The Age Of Conquest, 1063-1415'' (1987)
★ ''Domination And Conquest'' (1990)
★ ''Owain Glyn Dwr'' (1997)
★ ''First English Empire, 1093-1343'' (1998)