Editing Gower Peninsula (section)

=== Anglicisation ===
Following the [[Norman invasion of Wales]] the [[commote]] of Gŵyr passed into the hands of English-speaking barons, and its southern part soon became [[Anglicised]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} In 1203 [[John of England|King John]] (1199–1216) granted the [[Gower (Lordship)|Lordship of Gower]] to [[William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber|William III de Braose]] (died 1211) for the [[Feudal land tenure|service]] of one [[knight's fee]].<ref>Sanders, I.J., Feudal Military Service in England, Oxford, 1956, p.12, note 1; Charter transcribed in [[G. T. Clark|Clarke, G.T.]], ''Cartae'', vol.3, pp.234–5</ref> It remained with the [[House of Braose|Braose family]] until the death of [[William de Braose, 2nd Baron Braose]] in 1326, when it passed from the family to the husband of one of his two daughters and co-heiresses, Aline and Joan.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} In 1215 a local lord, [[Rhys Gryg]] of [[Deheubarth]], claimed control of the peninsula, but in 1220 he ceded control to the Anglo-Norman lords, perhaps on the orders of his overlord, [[Llywelyn ap Iorwerth]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}

As an Anglo-Norman peninsula isolated from its Welsh hinterland but with coastal links to other parts of south Wales and southwest England, it developed its own [[Gower dialect]] of English.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}