Caus Castle
Caus Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Westbury in the English county of Shropshire . The remains of a hill fort from the Iron Age and a moth from the Middle Ages are in the eastern foothills of the Long Mountain . The castles protected the road from Shrewsbury to Montgomery in Wales .
history
The older, outer earthworks on the site presumably come from a hill fort from the Iron Age, while the later moth originated in Norman times.
Roger le Corbet (or Roger FitzCorbet ) was rewarded in 1069 for his role in the conquest of England from King William the Conqueror as fiefdoms and the title of Baron Caus . This title was named after his property in Normandy , the Pays de Caux . The Corbet family owed the feudal oath to Roger de Montgomerie , the first Earl of Shrewsbury , to support him in control of the Welsh Marches with absolute control of their labor court . At the end of the 11th century, Roger le Corbet had Caus Castle built as a high mound with a very small summit area, on which stood a tower and an easily defended inner castle .
The castle was so important that the crown was interested in its preservation. Heinrich II garrisoned it in 1165. In 1198 Roger Corbet had the tower, the donjon and the curtain wall rebuilt in stone. At the end of the 12th century a settlement or a borough was established in the large outer bailey. In 1263 there was a royal grant of 50 marks for further construction work when the D-shaped towers were added to the curtain wall. The settlement included a church of St Margaret and a castle church of St Nicholas . The names of the thoroughfares Castle Street and St Margaret Street are also documented. After the death of Beatrice Corbet in 1347, Caus Castle fell to the Earl of Stafford . At its best in 1349, 58 citizens lived in the settlement . In the same year the black death found its way there.
Caus Castle (also spelled Caux Castle or Cause Castle ) was garrisoned by Seneschal Griffith ap Ieuan ap Madoc ap Gwenwys against the Owain Glyndŵr rebellion in the 15th century, but after calling on Welsh lawyers and students at Oxford University , he changed hands Pages and supported Glyndŵr. As a result, his family estates and his role at Caus Castle were stripped from him in 1404. It was only when his sons Ieuan ap Griffith and Sir Gruffudd Vychan John Oldcastle for Lord Charlton of Powys captured, they received land and title of King Henry V back.
On August 10, 1443, Sir Gruffudd Vychan pierced the heart of his master, Sir Christopher Talbot (1419–1443), son of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , and Lance Champion of England, with a lance. He was declared outlawed, given a bounty of 500 marks for his capture, and his lands were given to John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley , as the young knight's death was not considered an accident. The Earl of Stafford rarely used the castle in the 15th and 16th centuries and in 1521 it was reported to have fallen into disrepair and in 1541 that it had only two tenants. In June 1645, during the English Civil War , it fell as an insignificant garrison of the royalists , was destroyed and finally completely abandoned.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Barrie Trinder: A History of Shropshire . Phillimore & Co., 1983. ISBN 0-85033-475-6 . P. 36.
- ↑ a b Caus Castle . Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- ^ Barrie Trinder: A History of Shropshire . Phillimore & Co., 1983. ISBN 0-85033-475-6 . P. 57.
swell
- PA Barker: Caus Castle and Hawcocks Mount in Archaeological Journal . No. 138 (1981). P. 34.
- LF Chitty: Caus Castle in The Hundred-and-First Annual Meeting: Programs . CAA, 1954. pp. 19-21.
- G. Williams: Sir Gruffydd Fychan (? -1447) in Montgomeryshire Collections . Issue 86 (1998). Pp. 17-28.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 52 " N , 2 ° 58 ′ 53" W.