Chichester Castle

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Remains of the Mound of Chichester Castle

Chichester Castle is a ruined castle in Chichester in the English administrative unit of West Sussex . Shortly after the Norman conquest of England , Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , had a castle built in Chichester. This castle was one of eleven fortresses built in Sussex before 1100. The Rape Chichester, a part of Sussex, was administered from the castle and was split off from the larger Rape Arundel ; a rape was an administrative unit whose origin was in Anglo-Saxon times and which was continued under the Normans . The castle was in the northeast corner of Chichester and was protected by the city walls. Since Chichester Castle was a city castle built into an existing settlement, buildings likely had to be demolished to make way. Chichester Castle was made of wood; even if several wooden castles were later rebuilt in stone, there is no evidence that this was also the case with Chichester Castle.

Although the castle was originally built at the behest of the Earl of Shrewsbury , it belonged to the Earls of Sussex from 1154 to 1176 and then became the property of the Crown. At the beginning of the 13th century, Chichester Castle was used as a court and prison. The castles of Chichester and Oxford were two of the first city castles to serve this purpose, and gradually all city castles were used in this way. In 1216 Chichester Castle, like many other castles in the south of England, e.g. B. Reigate Castle , taken by the French . This was part of the Barons' first war against King John Ohneland . The castle was recaptured by the English in the spring of 1217. In the same year, King Henry III ordered. the destruction of the castle. From 1222 to 1269 Richard of Cornwall loaned the property to the Order of the Greyfriars for the building of a priory . The remains of the moth can still be seen in Priory Park today. The mound is considered a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Chichester Castle . Pastscape.org. Retrieved May 21, 2009.
  2. ↑ Richard Jones: Hastings to Herstmonceux: the castles of Sussex in David Rudling (editor): The Archeology of Sussex to AD2000 . Heritage Marketing & Publications, 2003. ISBN 0-9544456-1-9 . P. 173.
  3. ^ A b c Chichester District Council: Castle . Chichester.gov.uk. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 21, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chichester.gov.uk
  4. ^ C. Drage: Urban Castles in J. Schofield, R. Leech (editor): Urban Archeology in Britain: research report 61 . The Council for British Archeology, 1987. ISSN 0589-9036. P. 127.
  5. ^ Chichester District Council: Priory Park . Chichester.gov.uk. Archived from the original on June 14, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 22, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chichester.gov.uk

literature

  • Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 .
  • J. Magilton: Chichester Castle in The Archeology of Chichester and District 1995 . Chichester District Council, Chichester 1995. pp. 23-26.

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 23.3 "  N , 0 ° 46 ′ 32.9"  W.