Beaumont Palace

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Beaumont Palace 1785

Beaumont Palace is a former castle just outside the city of Oxford in the English county of Oxfordshire . King Henry I had the palace built in front of the city's west gate around 1130, conveniently close to his hunting lodge in Woodstock (now part of the Blenheim Palace park ). Today, on a pillar on the north side of Beaumont Street , near the confluence with Walton Street , there is a stone with the inscription Near to this site stood the King's Houses later known as Beaumont Palace. King Richard the Lionheart was born here in 1157 and his brother John in 1167. (Eng .: Nearby stood the houses of the king, the Beaumont Palace were later called. Richard the Lionheart was born here in 1157 and his brother Johann [Lackland] 1167 . ) "King's House" was the wing of the palace in which the king's apartments were located.

Sketch of the ruins (around 1800)

At Easter 1133, King Henry moved into the Nova Aula , his new knight's hall , with great pomp and celebrated the birth of his grandson, later King Henry II. Edward I was the last king to officially stay at Beaumont Palace. In 1275 he gave it to an Italian legal scholar, Francesco Accorsi , who had completed diplomatic missions for him. It is said that Edward II , who was routed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 , called on the Virgin Mary and vowed to found a Carmelite monastery if he could escape safely. In fulfillment of this promise, in 1318 he gave Beaumont Palace over to the Carmelites ( White Friars ).

In 1318, the John Deydras affair began in the palace , in which an impostor who claimed to be the rightful King of England claimed the palace for himself. John Deydras was eventually executed for insubordination .

When the White Friars were disbanded during the Reformation, most of the buildings were demolished and the stones were used to build Christ Church and St John's College . An engraving from 1785 shows the remains of Beaumont Palace, the last parts of which were removed when Beaumont Street was built in 1829.

Individual references and comments

  1. ^ Henry of Huntington (editor: Thomas Arnold): Historia Anglorum . 1879. p. 259.
  2. ^ H. Hughes: Gladstone, Christ Church, and Oxford, an historic local retrospect . 1898. p. 5.
  3. ^ Inscription, Beaumont Palace Site . Oxford History . Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . Pimlico, London 2006. p. 117.
  5. ↑ David Horan: Oxford: a cultural and literary companion . 2000. p. 186: "The ruins were rifled by St John's College in the sixteenth century to build its library."
  6. ↑ Published by S. Hooper, engraved by Sparrow.
  7. ^ H. Hughes: Gladstone, Christ Church, and Oxford, an historic local retrospect . 1898. p. 18.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 18 "  N , 1 ° 15 ′ 45.7"  W.