The lords of the March of Wales enjoyed a remarkable position within the dominions ruled by the kings of England in the thirteenth century. Wales was a land of opportunities. It looked by 1094 as if it would all soon fall into the Norman lap, if not quite with the same ease as England had done so. Lordship in the March had been won by the sword and that with great and continuing effort; the liberties of the March were the powers assumed by the Norman lords to secure and to maintain that lordship. One other ingredient would also be necessary to bring about the definition of those liberties and regalities—the attitude of the king of England. Historically, most assuredly it was Clifford and Warenne who had the better case. The so-called liberties of the Marchwere not developed in a constitutional or institutional vacuum.