Cambro-Norman

Cambro - Norman (also Kambro - Normans, Latin: cambria = Wales) were Normans, who settled after the Norman conquest of England in 1066 in the south of Wales and came originally from Normandy. Their language was the Cambro - Norman.

About 100 years after the Norman Conquest of England, the Normans invaded in 1167 under Richard Fitz Godbert de Roche and in 1169 Richard de Clare in Eastern Ireland in Wexford and captured Wexford and Waterford. Most of these Normans came from Wales, a few from England, which is why they are also referred to by medievalists as Cambro - Norman rather than as Anglo-Normans. Those Normans that remained in Ireland and settled, were later Hiberno - Normans.