Cary Castle

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Earthworks of Cary Castle

Cary Castle is an Outbound castle on Lodge Hill in the market Castle Cary in the English county of Somerset . It is considered a Scheduled Monument .

history

The moth was either Walter of Douai or his son Robert , who also Bampton Castle in Devon was built, build. During the anarchy , Robert of Douai was exiled by King Stephen and the castle was given as a fief to Ralph Lovel , who was then part of Roberts, 1st Earl of Gloucester , against the king. King Stephen abandoned his siege of Bristol in 1138 and instead besieged Cary Castle with fire and stones made from siege equipment . The siege lasted until the starved garrison gave up.

In 1143, King Stephen lost control of southwest England at the Battle of Wilton . Henry de Tracy gained control of Cary Castle and had another fortress built in front of the older castle, but it was destroyed when William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester and his troops arrived and took the castle. The Lovels later achieved the return of the castle to them and their descendants were the landlords there until the 14th century.

In 1468 the castle was already abandoned. Around this time a mansion was built on the castle estate or an adjacent estate, presumably at the behest of Baron Zouche . It later fell to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset , but Edward Kirton resided there in the 1630s . Most of the mansion was demolished at the end of the 18th century.

In 1890 excavations took place on the site and foundations of a square, stone donjon with a side length of 24 meters, as well as a core castle and an outer castle were found.

today

Today only earthworks remain from the castle . Some of the castle's bricks can be found in the town's buildings and the Castle Cary and District Museum has an exhibition on the history of Cary Castle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monument No. 200127 . In: Pastscape National Monuments Record . English Heritage . Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  2. ^ A b c Robert Dunning: Somerset Castles . Somerset Books, Tiverton 1995. ISBN 978-0-86183-278-1 . Pp. 32-33.
  3. ^ Meade: Castle Cary . Pp. 82-99. 1858. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  4. ^ Miranda Richardson: An archaeological assessment of Castle Cary (PDF) In: English Heritage Extensive Urban Survey . Somerset County Council. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 17, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.somerset.gov.uk
  5. ^ Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins: A Field Guide to Somerset Archeology . Dovecote Press, Stanbridge 1992. ISBN 0-946159-94-7 . P. 35.
  6. ^ Castle, Castle Cary . In: Somerset Historic Environment Record . Somerset County Council. Archived from the original on February 1, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 10, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / webapp1.somerset.gov.uk

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  • Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 2 ° 30 ′ 50.4 ″  W.