Castlethorpe Castle

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Castlethorpe Castle is an abandoned castle in the village of Castlethorpe north of Milton Keynes in the English county of Buckinghamshire .

The castle was a moth with wooden buildings that Winemar , the Flemish Lord of Hanslope, built in the 11th or 12th centuries. At that time it was also called Hanslope Castle . The castle was destroyed in the first war of the barons of Falkes de Bréauté in 1215 and was never rebuilt.

Today only earthworks remain.

Location

The remains of Castlethorpe Castle are in the village of Castlethorpe , which belonged to the Hanslope manor in the Middle Ages . The village is north of Milton Keynes.

history

Castlethorpe Castle belonged to the Lord of Hanslope and was built at the turn of the 11th to the 12th century. In 1066 King William the Conqueror refused the manorial rule of Hanslope to Winemar, the Flemish who built the fortifications. In the reign of Henry I , it was the baron castle of William Mauduit , the king's chamberlain . In the Civil War Anarchy (1138–1153) the Mauduit family , who owned the castle at that time, supported the Empress Matilda against King Stephen .

In the dispute between King John Ohneland and the barons, Robert Mauduit took the side of the barons. In the autumn of 1215, Faulkes des Bréauté, the king's general, attacked the castle, destroyed it and also took the Hanslope manor from its owner. Even if Robert Maudit later got the manorial rule back, he never had the castle rebuilt.

The Anglo-Saxon name "Castlethorpe" means "farm or subordinate settlement of the castle" in German.

The site of the castle is now a Scheduled Monument , even if only earthworks are preserved today and no traces of masonry.

construction

The castle had a 11 meter high mound with a wooden donjon on top. This was located in the south of the main castle , which covered an area of ​​16,000 m² and was surrounded by an outer castle , up to 18 meters wide ditches and a wall. The family probably lived in a knight's hall in the inner castle, which had entrances in the west and northwest. There is evidence that there were extensive buildings on the site.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Castlethorpe Castle . MKHeritage.co.uk. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  2. ^ RA Brown: A List of Castles, 1154-1216 in The English Historical Review . Volume 74, No. 291 (April 1959). Oxford University, Oxford 1959. pp. 249-280
  3. ↑ Hanslope Castle . Big Days Out. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ HE1: Scheduled Ancient Monuments . Milton Keynes Locsl Plan 2001-2011. Milton Keynes Local Council. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Milton Keynes Council . ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.milton-keynes.gov.uk
  6. ↑ a b Parishes: Hanslope with Castle Thorpe . British History Online. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  7. ^ Castle Thorpe, Castlethorpe . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved February 15, 2016.

swell

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '35.3 "  N , 0 ° 50' 9.1"  W.