Owain Glyndwr's infantry

[Erpingham]

North Welsh spearmen are Pk (F) from 1150 in the DBMM list (before that Warband (F)).

Are other Welsh spearmen treated differently?  I wonder if this reflects the old idea that spearmen came from the North and archers from the South, which Chapman and Sean Davies reject?

It does. From the 12th century, the southerners are mostly archers, and what spearmen they have are Ax (O), apparently on the supposition they're less inclined to bunch up to resist cavalry (and no longer aggressive enough to be classed as Warband).

A bit of a suspicion that this may reflect gaps in our knowledge rather than reality.  We have evidence of 13th century North Welsh forming close-order to resist cavalry but we don't have parallel detail about the South or the Marches.