Cambro-Normans were Normans who settled in southern Wales after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Some historians prefer this term over Anglo-Norman for the Normans who invaded Ireland after 1170 since many of them originated in Wales. Contemporary Irish accounts of this period simply called the incomers Saxain, which means "Saxon", i.e. "English". The most prominent Cambro-Norman figure was Richard "Strongbow" de Clare, whose lands in Wales centred on Pembroke and who led the Norman invasion of Ireland.