Ewyas Harold Castle
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Ewyas Harold Castle is an abandoned castle in the village of Ewyas Harold in the English county of Herefordshire .
history
The first castle on this site is believed to have been one of the few castles built under the Anglo-Saxons before the Norman conquest of England , probably in 1048 on the site of an earlier fortification. Possibly they had Osbern Pentecost built. It was a moth over the Dulas Brook . In 1052 this first castle was destroyed, either at the behest of Godwin of Wessex or by a Welsh raid.
After the Norman conquest of England , William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford , had the castle rebuilt. The Domesday Book of 1086 reads:
“In the jurisdiction of Ewyas Harold Castle, Roger von Henry has three churches and a priest and 13 hectares of land and they receive two sesters of honey. He has two missions in the castle . "
In 1100 a priory was established in the castle courtyard.
Until the beginning of the 15th century, the castle fell into disrepair. It was then owned by William Beauchamp , the Marquess of Abergavenny , who had it reattached in the face of the threat from Owain Glyndŵr . However, there is no record of any attack during this period. Owain Glyndŵr and his various forces focused on military capabilities elsewhere.
After that, Ewyas Harold Castle fell into disrepair until 1645, today only earthworks on the edge of the village are visible, which indicate where the castle once stood.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ewyas Harold Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
- ^ Ann Williams, Geoffrey Martin: Domesday Book: A Complete Translation . Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN 978-0-14-143994-5 . P. 511.
swell
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 .
- Arthur Thomas Bannister: The history of Ewias Harold, its castle, priory, and church . Hereford 1902.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '12.1 " N , 2 ° 53' 46.7" W.