On your point about "blood", I know where you're coming from (one of my pet peeves is modern people wanting to slot medieval people into neat ethnic categories) but I don't think Peters is all that wrong for that place and time.
The issue of whether people are subject to Welsh or English law comes up more than once.
And this is the era when Domesday often records if there are "Franci" owning property, when Giraldus Cambrensis, William of Malmesbury and Orderic Vitalis are all quite specific about their mixed ancestry.
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Oswestry is in Shropshire but there are still people there today who consider themselves Welsh.
And this is the era when Domesday often records if there are "Franci" owning property, when Giraldus Cambrensis, William of Malmesbury and Orderic Vitalis are all quite specific about their mixed ancestry.
I found both Eleanor Parker's "Conquered" and (the Welsh!) R R Davies generally both interesting on identity in this period.