Brecon Castle
| Brecon Castle | ||
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 View of the castle over the River Usk, on the left the Castle Hotel, built in the early 19th century |
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| Alternative name (s): | Castell Aberhonddu | |
| Creation time : | 11th century | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 56 '55 " N , 3 ° 23' 37.7" W | |
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Brecon Castle is a ruined castle in Powys , Wales . The ruin, classified as a Grade I cultural monument and protected as a Scheduled Monument , is located in the middle of the city center of Brecon .
history
More than 4000 years ago there was an Iron Age hill fort called Pen-y-crug at the strategically favorable location .
To secure his rule over the Welsh kingdom of Brycheiniog, the Norman nobleman Bernard de Neufmarché built a moth at a ford over the River Usk , which became the center of the area now called Brecknockshire . After Bernard's death, his daughter Sibyl, who was married to Miles de Gloucester , inherited the rule. In 1166 William de Braose , who had married one of Sibyl and Miles' daughters , inherited the castle. After the rebellion of William de Braose 's son of the same name against King John , the castle fell to the crown in 1208. In 1215 it was recaptured by Giles 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. Brecon fell to Eleanor, who after 1241 married Humphrey V. de Bohun , a son of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford .
The castle was attacked several times by the Welsh, in 1231 it was destroyed by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In the 1260s, father and son de Bohun were in the barons' war against King Henry III. involved, which is why the castle was conquered in 1264 by the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd , a partisan of Simon de Montfort and in the following year by Prince Edward . After the Bohun family died out in the male line in 1372, Brecon fell to the crown, which passed it on to the Stafford family. After Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , lost the king's favor, he retired to Brecon in 1483. Here he allied himself with John Morton , Bishop of Ely, who was imprisoned in the castle . Your conspiracy against Richard III. failed, however, but while the duke was captured and executed, the bishop was able to flee to Heinrich Tudor , who was Richard III. defeated and became king himself. The son of Henry Stafford, the third Duke of Buckingham, was born in Brecon Castle in 1478. He got back his father's titles and lands, but he too was eventually executed under Henry VIII and Brecon fell to the Crown.
In the following centuries the castle fell into disrepair. During the English Civil War, the fortifications were razed by the citizens of Brecon to prevent the town from engaging in combat. In 1809 the Morgan of Tredegar Park family began building a hotel on the site of the former castle.
investment
The ruin is located on a hill above the confluence of the Usk and Honddu rivers in the middle of the city of Brecon.
From the main castle remains of earthen walls, the castle hill with the remains of the building built in the late 12th century are still shell Keeps and efeuüberwachsene Ely Tower received. The Ely Tower was named after the allegedly imprisoned Bishop of Ely. The former castle mound is located in the palace garden of the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon.
On the grounds of the triangular, south of the castle hill located Vorburg located since 1809, the Castle Hotel. The remains of the living hall built in the 13th century, a two-storey wall with four pointed lancet windows and an adjoining tower built in the 14th century are integrated into the hotel complex .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ British listed Buildings: Ely Tower of Brecon Castle, Brecon. Retrieved October 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Ancient Monuments: Brecon Castle. Retrieved October 15, 2013 .
- ^ David Walker: Medieval Wales . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990. ISBN 978-0-521-31153-3 , p. 96
- ^ Adrian Pettifer: Welsh Castles: a Guide by Counties. Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2000. ISBN 978-0-85115-778-8 , p. 8