Editing Marcher lord (section)

==Later claims==
In 1563, [[Elizabeth I]] granted the former Marcher [[Lordship of Denbigh]] to her favourite [[Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester|Robert Dudley]], later the earl of Leicester.<ref name= Adams295>{{cite book |title=Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan Politics |last=Adams |first=Simon |year=2002 |isbn=978-0719053252 |pages=295|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Nn5UY-RilEC&q=%22the+creation+of+the+shires+of+eastern+Wales%22&pg=PA253 |access-date=7 July 2012}}</ref> The grant claimed that Denbigh was given to him,

::''"in as large and ample a manner...as was used when it was a lordship marcher with as large wardes as council learned could devise."''<ref name= Adams295/>

Although the Laws in Wales Acts had not been modified – and the claim to have the same rights as a Marcher lordship could not therefore be legally possible – Leicester had such political power that he was able to make this a reality in practice.<ref name= Adams295/>

Early in the 21st century, businessman [[Mark Roberts (businessman)|Mark Roberts]] styled himself lord marcher of [[Trellech|Trellick]] and purported to acquire the title of [[St. David's|Lord Marcher of St. David's]] from the [[University of Wales]], seeking to assert various associated economic rights including title in half the coastline of [[Pembrokeshire]]. Roberts contended that the [[Bishop of St David's|Bishops of St David's]] were never themselves conquered and retained their ancient temporal possessions.

The last Welsh bishop had died in 1115 but the ensuing [[Normans|Norman]] bishops acquired the ancient jurisdictional rights by use and eventually by a distinct [[royal charter]]. Roberts claimed to be a [[corporation sole]] in succession to the bishops and to have the status of a [[rajah]] and effective [[state immunity]]. However, in May 2008, the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] held that the [[Laws in Wales Act 1535]] had abolished the [[jurisdiction]]al [[Government-granted monopoly|franchise]] of Marcher Lord entirely and that Roberts had no such status.<ref>{{cite web|title=To the manor bought |author=Frank Hinks |date=2008-09-04 |work=Legal Week |url=http://www.legalweek.com/Navigation/35/Articles/1159788/Commercial+and+Chancery+Bar+To+the+manor+bought.html |access-date=2008-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118102010/http://www.legalweek.com/Navigation/35/Articles/1159788/Commercial%2Band%2BChancery%2BBar%2BTo%2Bthe%2Bmanor%2Bbought.html |archive-date=2008-11-18 |url-status=dead }} </ref><ref>[https://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2008/1302.html Crown Estates Commissioners -v- Roberts & another (2008)]</ref>