Egremont Castle
Egremont Castle is a ruined castle in the market Egremont in the English county of Cumbria . English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
history
The first castle was built after the conquest of Cumberland by the Normans in 1092 at the behest of King William II on a mound over the River Ehen instead of an earlier Danish fort. The present castle was built by William Meschin in 1120–1135. The facility was expanded in the 13th century. Subsequently, the property was no longer used and fell into disrepair until today.
The castle offered protection to the market town of Egremont, which was founded by King Wilhelm II. The long and wide street offered a marketplace for traders, who were granted privileges and security promises against payment of customs duties. Some of the proceeds were undoubtedly used by the founding father of Egremont to donate the Abbey of St Bega in St Bees .
The castle is a moth .
There is said to have been a horn in the castle that only the rightful heir of the property could blow. William Wordsworth's poem The Horn of Egremont Castle deals with this legend .
Individual evidence
- ^ Sharpe: Norman Rule in Cumbria . Pp. 36-38.
- ^ Egremont Castle, Cumbria . The Cumbria Directory. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
Sources and web links
- Commons : Egremont Castle - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Egremont Castle . E-castles.
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, London 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
Coordinates: 54 ° 28 ′ 42.1 ″ N , 3 ° 31 ′ 45.8 ″ W.