Abergavenny Castle

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Abergavenny Castle
The Keep, rebuilt as a hunting lodge in the 19th century

The Keep, rebuilt as a hunting lodge in the 19th century

Creation time : 12th Century
Conservation status: ruin
Geographical location 51 ° 49 '9.6 "  N , 3 ° 1' 1.1"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 49 '9.6 "  N , 3 ° 1' 1.1"  W.
Abergavenny Castle (Wales)
Abergavenny Castle

Abergavenny Castle is a ruined castle in Monmouthshire , Wales . The ruin, classified as a Grade I cultural monument and protected as a Scheduled Monument , is located south of the city center of Abergavenny .

history

Around 1090, the Norman conqueror Hamelin de Ballon erected a moth as the center of the new Norman rule of Abergavenny. In 1141 Hamelin's nephew Brian FitzCount gave the castle to his cousin Miles de Gloucester . In 1166 Abergavenny fell to William de Braose , who had married Bertha, daughter and heiress of Miles de Gloucester. At Christmas 1175, the Abergavenny massacre took place in the castle, during which Williams' son of the same name, William de Braose, had the Welsh prince Seisyll ap Dyfnwal and his entourage slaughtered during a banquet. In retaliation for this crime, the Welsh Lord of Caerleon Hywel from Iorwerth , a cousin of the slain, burned the castle down in 1182. During the reconstruction, de Braose had the castle fortified with a stone curtain wall. After the de Braose rebellion against King John , the castle fell to the crown in 1208. In 1216 it was recaptured by Reginald de Braose , a son of Williams, with the help of the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth . After Reginald's son William was executed by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth in 1230, his lands were divided among his daughters. Abergavenny fell to Eva , who married William de Cantilupe in 1241 . During the Richard Marshal rebellion , the castle was destroyed in 1233 by Marshal and his allied Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In 1263 the castle resisted a siege by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd under Peter de Montfort , who managed the castle for the minor George de Cantilupe . After the death of George de Cantilupe in 1273, his nephew John Hastings inherited the castle. In 1389 the castle fell to William Beauchamp , who had a new gatehouse built by Owain Glyndŵr as the last construction work on the castle around 1400 to ward off the threat of the rebellion . The castle fell through succession to the Earls of Warwick and finally to the Nevill family, whose head was elevated to Earl in 1784 and Marquess of Abergavenny in 1876 .

During the English Civil War , the castle was razed between 1645 and 1646 and then used as a quarry. On the castle hill, the 2nd Earl of Abergavenny had a hunting lodge built for the Earls of Abergavenny from 1818 to 1819 . The castle grounds were redesigned as a landscape garden, and the northern section of the curtain wall was also torn down. The 1st Marquess of Abergavenny had the garden converted into a public park at the end of the 19th century.

The park and the ruins of the castle are freely accessible today, the former hunting lodge has served as the Abergavenny Museum since 1959.

The remains of the curtain wall

investment

The ruin is located on a hill above the Usk River . Access to the castle was through the gatehouse on the north side of the castle, which has a gate kennel and a long, narrow, originally arched passage. There were living rooms on the upper floors of the gatehouse. The ruin of the outer wall of the living hall from the 13th century borders the gatehouse; on the west side of the hall is a fully preserved section of the curtain wall and the ruins of a round and a semicircular tower from the late 13th century.

On the medieval castle hill is the hunting lodge built in the 19th century, a two-storey rectangular building in neo-Gothic style with battlements and corner turrets .

literature

Web links

Commons : Abergavenny Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. British listed Buildings: Abergavenny Castle (ruins), Abergavenny. Retrieved October 13, 2013 .
  2. Ancient Monuments: Abergavenny Castle. Retrieved February 11, 2014 .
  3. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 97
  4. Coflein: Abergavenny Castle Garden, Abergavenny. Retrieved October 14, 2013 .