Bothal Castle
Bothal Castle is a castle in the village of Bothal near the River Wansbeck between Morpeth and Ashington in the English county of Northumberland . '' Botl '' is the old English name for a place of residence. The name "Bothal" could refer to a special dwelling or a country house. The house was fortified before the Norman conquest of England and rebuilt and renovated a number of times. Today's castle is a Scheduled Monument and English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
In 1095 Bothal Castle was given to Guy I. de Balliol as a fief by King William II . De Balliol's daughter Alice then married William Bertram, Baron of Mitford , who presumably had a hall house built. Several generations later, in 1343, Sir Robert Bertram received permission to turn his mansion into a castle and add an impressive gatehouse . The gate tower and fragments of the curtain wall date from the Middle Ages, and a large part of it has survived to this day. Through the marriage of Bertram's daughter Hellen to Sir Robert Ogle († approx. 1363), the property came into the Ogle family in the 14th century .
In August 1583, Cuthbert Ogle, 7th Baron Ogle , negotiated a marriage between his daughter Jane and Edward Talbot , a son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury . Shrewsbury's envoy visited Bothal Castle and described the castle as "a crenellated castle, not unlike Nether Haddon , where Master John Manners lives".
In 1591 the property fell to the Cavendish - Bentinck family , the Dukes of Portland from Welbeck, through the marriage between Catherine, Countess of Ogle , and Sir Charles Cavendish . Restoration work was carried out in the 19th century. Today the building serves as the private home of the Cavendish-Bentincks and the office of the Welbeck estate. The castle is in excellent condition, but not open to the public.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Journallive Administrator: Secrets of a castle well hidden away . In: journallive . March 20, 2006. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
- ^ J. Wallis: The Natural History and Antiquities of Northhumberland: And of So Much of the County of Durham A Lies Between the Rivers Tyne and Tweed, Commonly Called North Bishoprick . Volume II. 1769, p. 55. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
- ↑ Owen Dynfnallt (Editor): HMC 58, Manuscripts Marquess of Bath . Volume 5. Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London 1980. pp. 42, 44.
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- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
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Coordinates: 55 ° 10 ′ 22.8 " N , 1 ° 37 ′ 30" W.