John Marshall

Trinity College Dublin, Department of History, Post-Doc

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PhD from Trinity College Dublin and currently the Research Fellow on the Normandy and Ireland Settlement Connections project (NAISC), having previously been the Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for War and Diplomacy, Lancaster University, and the RHS Centenary Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Interested in diplomacy, politics, networks, and political culture in medieval Britain, Ireland and wider Europe.

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👁 Research paper thumbnail of - ‘The Marshal partition of 1247: a medieval text’s journey through early modern Ireland’ in Historical Research, 98:280 (2025).

- ‘The Marshal partition of 1247: a medieval text’s journey through early modern Ireland’ in Historical Research, 98:280 (2025).

Historical Research, 2025

This article analyses the role of the Marshal partition (1247) in political discourse and manuscr... more This article analyses the role of the Marshal partition (1247) in political discourse and manuscript transmission in early modern Ireland. It is argued that the early modern interest in the Marshal partition reflects the vulnerability and the identity crisis of the English of Ireland due to British and Irish politics and changing European ideas of power and peerage. Overall, this article uses the Marshal partition as a key to open a broader discussion about noble, political, and manuscript cultures in early modern Britain and Ireland and to advocate for a greater permeation of the 'medieval' and 'early modern' historiographical divide.

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👁 Research paper thumbnail of ‘Using a partition to analyse transnational settlement: the case of the Marshal inheritance, 1245–7’ in Matthew Stout and Geraldine Stout (eds), Sea and settlement in Ireland: an international perspective (Dublin, 2024), 80–97.

‘Using a partition to analyse transnational settlement: the case of the Marshal inheritance, 1245–7’ in Matthew Stout and Geraldine Stout (eds), Sea and settlement in Ireland: an international perspective (Dublin, 2024), 80–97.

Chapter in edited volume, 2024

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👁 Research paper thumbnail of The pope, a knight and a bishop on the edge of Christendom: the politics of exclusion in thirteenth-century Ireland

The pope, a knight and a bishop on the edge of Christendom: the politics of exclusion in thirteenth-century Ireland

Irish Historical Studies, 2023

This article provides a re-appraisal of the land dispute between the lord of Leinster, William Ma... more This article provides a re-appraisal of the land dispute between the lord of
Leinster, William Marshal, and the bishop of Ferns, Ailbe Ó Máelmuaid, in the 1210s. In 1215, Ailbe petitioned the pope to solve the dispute, leading to the pronouncement of an interdict and excommunication against the Marshal. It is argued that after King John of England died and the Marshal became regent of England in 1216, the papal stance towards the land dispute changed and the Marshal enjoyed favour in Rome, thus shutting the roads to redress for the bishop of Ferns. Now the most powerful man in the Plantagenet dominions, William Marshal used his position as regent to begin the policy of English discrimination against Gaelic-born bishops for episcopal sees in Ireland. This article uses this dispute as a means of exploring Ireland’s position within wider Latin Christendom against the background of the papacy’s crusading agenda.

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👁 Research paper thumbnail of Blog post: 'The barons of Ireland: the role of magnates in the governance of thirteenth-century Ireland'

Blog post: 'The barons of Ireland: the role of magnates in the governance of thirteenth-century Ireland'

Noblesse Oblige AHRC Research Network, 2023

👁 Research paper thumbnail of 'A Community in Competition: The Barons of Leinster in Thirteenth-Century Ireland' in History: the Journal of the Historical Association, 108:382 (2023), pp 421-45.

'A Community in Competition: The Barons of Leinster in Thirteenth-Century Ireland' in History: the Journal of the Historical Association, 108:382 (2023), pp 421-45.

History: the Journal of the Historical Association, 2023

Over the last number of decades, the relationship between king and magnate in medieval Ireland ha... more Over the last number of decades, the relationship between king and magnate in medieval Ireland has been prominent in scholarship, but less attention has been given to the tenantry below. Drawing on a range of sources from chancery material to chronicle evidence, this article analyses one such tenantry community, the 'barons of Leinster'. During the first half of the thirteenth century, the Marshal lords of Leinster clashed with royal authorities in Ireland on three occasions, and in these circumstances, the tenants of Leinster had to choose between their king and their lord. For the lords of Leinster, the support of their tenantry was not to be presumed, and hence they had to relentlessly compete for the allegiance of their tenantry with the other lords in Ireland and the king of England. This essay argues that status and marital ties influenced tenantry allegiance in Ireland, in particular that assimilation into a new lord's household was more important for the lesser tenantry who held land in both Ireland and Wales than for the great landed barons who also benefited from royal patronage. Hence, this study contributes to the rich ongoing discussion on the importance and role of tenantry communities in the Plantagenet dominions. 1 'his sworn men and knights, in whom he trusted'.

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