Fragmentation

        Cultural adhesion fractured dramatically during these corridors of time. Different dynamics jarred the foundations. Rights of descent, rights to property, rights to land and, rights to protection all joined hands in this flux of authority. Some historians have called this "The Hundred Years Wars". It must have seemed so! Here is a scan of such writers:

         Before "The Black Death" [1337 A.D.] until well beyond [1453 A.D.], the tumoral flashed across the skies. How did my Jones surname survive along the Vale of Clwyd? How does a genealogist sort through all the cracks? Associated surnames and marital descent opened many windows into the family tree. Fragmentation was part of the journey.