Cainhoe Castle
Cainhoe Castle is an Outbound castle near the village Clophill in the English administrative unit Central Bedfordshire .
The moth triple bailey was Nigel d'Aubigny , a Norman knight , some time after the conquest of England in 1066 built. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is not mentioned.
The D'Aubigny family, heavily involved in the Crusades , used the castle as the seat of the Cainhoe barony. It remained in the family until the death of Simon d'Aubigny , who died in 1272 without male descendants. Then it fell to the De Lacy family, the Norton family, and finally the Gray family , the Earls of Kent .
The castle was inhabited until the outbreak of the plague in 1348, from which all residents died. The castle and the small village that had formed around the castle were later discovered completely abandoned.
In 1374 the castle was already in ruins . In 1973, 1985 and 1986 excavations were carried out on the castle grounds. Today only earthworks remain. The site is protected as a Scheduled Monument .
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- Cainhoe Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer.
- Domesday Book Online.
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles , David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
Web links
- Cainhoe Castle . Historic England. Pastscape. English Heritage.
- Cainhoe Castle, Central Bedfordshire - Investigation History . Historic England. Pastscape. English Heritage.
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 27.1 ″ N , 0 ° 24 ′ 9.4 ″ W.