Great Canfield Castle
Great Canfield Castle is an Outbound castle in the village of Great Canfield about 4.8 km southwest of the market Great Dunmow in the English county of Essex .
The lords of Canfield, the De Veres , had a moth built in the valley near the Roding River, probably in the late 11th or early 12th century. The keep was made of wood. In the 1130s and 1140s, Aubrey II. De Vere or his son Aubrey III. de Vere , the first Earl of Oxford , presumably diverted a tributary of the Roding so that it flooded the moat and the moth. The water was led with a dam system . Excavations suggest that the trench was 6.25 meters deep, 3.34 meters less than the water level.
Today only earthworks remain.
The Lords de Vere had two feudal types of property in Canfield in the Domesday Book : as chief feudal men of the crown for two hides and as feudal men of Alain the Red , Lord of Richmond, one hide. Over time, the reign of Richmond seems to have been forgotten and the de Veres, Earls of Oxford , received all three hiden direct from the king. The role of the manorial lords remained from December 14, 1346 until the 16th century.
Individual evidence
- ^ Fox: Canfield in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society . Volume 16, p. 138.
- ^ Finn: Great Canfield in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society . 3rd series. Volume 1. p. 186.
Sources and web links
- Canfield Castle, Great Canfield . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
- Frank Merry Stenton: William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans . Barnes & Noble, Oxford 1908. Includes a floor plan of Great Canfield Castle. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 12.9 ″ N , 0 ° 18 ′ 49.1 ″ E