Beaumys Castle

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Beaumys Castle , also called Beams Castle , is the ruin of a fortified manor house in the parish of Swallowfield in the English county of Berkshire .

history

The lordship of Beaumys was given to Sir Nicholas de la Beche as a fief in 1335 . De la Beche received a royal permit to build a fortified house (English: "License to crenellate") in 1338 and had a fortified manor house built. This castle had a rectangular floor plan and was protected by earthworks in a square of 130 meters by 110 meters, which were surrounded by a moat filled with water . The castle could be reached via an entrance in the northwest.

De la Beche died, leaving the manor to his widow Margery , who remarried, a Thomas Arderne . After Arderne's death in 1347, John de Dalton and a small group of his followers attacked the castle, killed the important noble Michael de Poynings , threatened Lionel , the son of King Edward III. who was visiting there and grabbed Margery, who, as a rich widow, had to marry John de Dalton.

The surrounding manor was dissolved in 1420. The earthworks still preserved today are considered a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Beaumys Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c James Dixon Mackenzie: The Castles of England: Their Story and Structure . General Books, (1896) 2009. ISBN 978-1-150-51044-1 . P. 170.
  3. ↑ a b Beaumys Castle Monument No. 237298 . National Monuments Record. English Heritage. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  4. ^ A b David Nash Ford: Margery Poynings (d. 1349) . In: Royal Berkshire History . Nash Ford Publishing. 2011. Accessed December 7, 2015.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 33.6 "  N , 0 ° 58 ′ 52.7"  W.