Groby Castle
Groby Castle is an Outbound castle in the village of Groby northwest of Leicester in the English county of Leicestershire .
history
After the Norman conquest of England , the area came into the possession of Hugues de Grandmesnil Groby was one of 67 manors that Grantmesnil owned in Leicestershire according to the Domesday Book of 1086. The Victoria County History of England for Leicestershire mentions that Grantmesnil built Groby Castle, and the Historic England Archives confirm this. But medieval historian Reginald Allen Brown believes that the castle was commissioned by the Earl of Leicester in the third quarter of the 12th century . This construction period was also confirmed by Professor Leonard Cantor and David Cathcart King . Excavations in the 1960s revealed that the mound was built around a stone tower.
Along with Leicester Castle and Brackley Castle , Groby Castle was one of the three castles that belonged to the Earl and were destroyed on the orders of King Henry II after the revolt of 1173-1174 , which was under the leadership of his son, Prince Henry . In the 13th century, a stone mansion was built on the site, later called Groby Old Hall . The historian William Burton noted at the beginning of the 17th century that Groby Castle was "completely ruined and gone and only mounds, curtain walls and ditches could be seen".
Today a fragment of a wall is still preserved, along with earthworks made up of a large earth mound at the rear of the manor house. A church takes up part of the former castle grounds. In 1962 and 1963, excavations were carried out in the vicinity in preparation for the construction of the A50 highway . During the construction of the road that runs through the northeast part of the Motte , parts of the fortifications of the castle were destroyed. In April 2010, excavations were carried out at the castle as part of the archaeological television program Time Team .
Groby Castle is a Scheduled Monument ; It is therefore a "nationally important" historical building and an archaeological site that is protected against unauthorized changes.
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Wall: Victoria County History of Leicestershire . Pp. 243-276. 1907. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
- ↑ KSB Keats-Rohan: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. 2004. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
- ^ Charles Wall: Victoria County History of Leicestershire . Pp. 258-259. 1907. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Castle Hill . In: Pastscape . English Heritage. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
- ^ Reginald Allen Brown: A List of Castles, 1154-1216 in The English Historical Review . Issue 74. No. 291 (April 1959). P. 268.
- ^ A b Leonard Cantor: The Medieval Castles of Leicestershire (PDF) P. 36. 1977–1978. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
- ^ David James Cathcart King: Catellarium Anglicanum: An Index and Bibliography of the Castles of England, Wales and the Islands . Volume I: Anglesey - Montgomery . Kraus International Publications, 1983. p. 253.
- ^ AD McWhirr, MJ Winter: Medieval Castles Additional Information (PDF) pp. 74–75. 1978-1979. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
- ^ Reginald Allen Brown: A List of Castles, 1154-1216 in The English Historical Review . Issue 74. No. 291 (April 1959). P. 252.
- ↑ a b Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 .
- ↑ Oliver Creighton: Early Leicestershire Castles: Archeology and Landscape History (PDF) 1997. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
- ↑ TV's Time Team dig deep for star find . April 17, 2010. Archived from the original on April 18, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 50.4 " N , 1 ° 13 ′ 36.5" W.