Haddon Hall

Haddon Hall (2010)

Haddon Hall is a country house on the River Wye in the market town of Bakewell in the English county of Derbyshire . The house is one of the family seats of the Dukes of Rutland . It is currently inhabited by Lord Edward Manners , the current Duke's brother, and his family. The mansion has been described as "the most complete and interesting house of its period". The origins of the mansion go back to the 11th century. The present country house from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period was changed in various stages from the 13th to the 17th century.

The Vernon family came to the manor of Nether Haddon by marriage in the 13th century . Dorothy Vernon , daughter and heir to George Vernon , married John Manners , the 2nd son of Thomas Manners , in 1563 . In the 19th century a legend emerged that Dorothy Vernon and John Manners ran away. This legend took up novels, plays and other literary works. Nevertheless, Dorothy inherited the mansion and her grandson, who was also called John , inherited the title of nobility in 1641 from a distant cousin. His son, another John Manners , was made the first Duke of Rutland in 1703. In the 20th century, another John Manners made it a life's work to restore the mansion.

history

Long gallery at Haddon Hall, about 1890

The origins of the mansion go back to the 11th century. William Peverell , an illegitimate son of William the Conqueror , held the manor of Nether Haddon in 1087 when the survey on which the Domesday Book is based was taken. Although it was not a castle, the mansion had been enclosed with a castle wall since the royal permission to do so in 1194. Sir Richard de Vernon acquired the manor through marriage to the Haddon heiress in the early 13th century. His son, Sir William Vernon , was High Sheriff of Lancashire and Chief Justice of Cheshire . Prominent family members were e.g. B. Richard Vernon (1390-1451), also High Sheriff , MP and Speaker of the House of Commons. His son was Lord High Constable and succeeded his father as Treasurer of Calais and Member of Parliament for Derbyshire and Staffordshire ; his grandson Sir Henry Vernon , KB (1441-1515), governor and treasurer of Arthur Tudor , married Anne Talbot , daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury and rebuilt Haddon Hall.

Courtice Pounds as John Manners in the opera Haddon Hall (1892)

George Vernon (ca.1503 - August 31, 1565) had two daughters, Margaret and Dorothy. Dorothy married John Manners, the second son of Thomas Manners, in 1563. Sir George disapproved of this association, possibly because the Manners were Protestants but the Vernons were Catholics, and possibly also because the earl's second son had uncertain financial prospects had to offer. According to legend, Sir George forbade John Manners to court Dorothy, who was known to be very pretty and lovely, and forbade his daughter to see John Manners. At a ball given by Sir George at Haddon Hall in 1563, Dorothy fled, under cover of the crowd, through the gardens, down a few stone steps and over a small bridge where Manners was waiting for her, and they both rode off to be married. If this escape actually took place, the young married couple would soon be reconciled with Sir George, as they inherited the property after his death two years later. Her grandson, also a John Manners from Haddon , inherited the title of nobility in 1641 after the death of his distant cousin George , whose lands also included Belvoir Castle .

When John Manners' son, also John , the 9th Earl of Rutland, was made 1st Duke of Rutland in 1703, he moved to Belvoir Castle and his heirs made very little use of Haddon Hall, leaving it almost in its state It was preserved in the 16th century when it was married to the Manners family in 1567. In the 1920s, another John Manners recognized its importance and began a meticulous restoration with the help of the architect Harold Brakspear , which he made his life's work. The Haddon Hall from the Middle Ages and Tudor periods still preserved today still contains small parts from the old structure of the 11th century, but mainly consists of additions made by subsequent generations of the Peverel, Avenel, Vernon and Manners families. Major alterations were made in various stages between the 13th and 17th centuries. The banquet hall (with Ménestrel gallery ), the kitchens and the salon date from 1370 and the Nikolauskapelle was completed in 1427. For many generations, their frescoes from the pre-Reformation period were painted white. There is also a long gallery from the 16th century.

The 9th Duke of Rutland had the fenced-in topiary garden laid out next to the stables. It contains trimmed heraldic figures of a pig's head and a peacock, which appear as emblems in the Vernons and Manners family crests. Haddon Hall still belongs to the Manners family today. Lord Edward Manners, the brother of David Manners, the 11th Duke of Rutland , lives there with his family.

layout

The manor stands on a slope and extends around two courtyards. The Peverel Tower and the Eagle Tower as well as the Long Gallery are located in the upper courtyard in the northeast, and the chapel in the lower courtyard in the southwest. The knight's hall is between the two courtyards. At the time of the mansion's construction, it was common for there to be many trapped rooms that could only be accessed through other rooms, or those that could only be accessed from the outside. This makes the house rather uncomfortable by today's standards.

Haddon Hall floor plan

In art and literature

Poster: Play Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1906)

The Haddon Hall estate

The mansion has played a prominent role in a number of books and plays, such as: E.g. the following, all of which describe Vernon / Manners' escape:

A story called King of the Peak - A Derbyshire Tale , by Allan Cunningham , was published in London Magazine in 1822 .
A novella called The King of the Peak - A Romance in three volumes, by William Bennett (1796–1879), who wrote under the pseudonym “Lee Gibbons”, was published in 1823.
The Love Steps of Dorothy Vernon , a short story by Eliza Meteyard (1816–1879), which she wrote under a pseudonym in 1849, was the first full version of the legend. It was first published in the December 29, 1849 issue of Eliza Cook's Journal and then in The Reliquary , October 1860, p. 79.
An operetta called Haddon Hall, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Sydney Grundy , premiered in London in 1892.
A novella called Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall was written by the American Charles Major in 1902 and became a bestseller.
American author Paul Kester wrote a play of the same name based on Major's novella . It premiered on Broadway in 1903.
Fred Terry and his wife, Julia Neilson, adapted the piece for performance in London and named it Dorothy o 'the Hall . In 1906 it was performed in London.
The screenplay for a 1924 film starring Mary Pickford was written by American writer Waldemar Young (grandson of Brigham Young ) based on Major's novella.
The mansion appears in Philip Hensher's 2008 novella The Northern Clemency .

Frederick Booty , the English watercolor painter, painted Haddon Hall a number of times, e.g. B. also a picture of the peacocks in the gardens.

In film and television

The interior and the exterior of the mansion (including the Long Gallery) presented in 1986 Prince Humperdinks castle in the film The Princess Bride is. Franco Zeffirelli chose Haddon Hall as a backdrop for his 1996 film shot Jane Eyre and 1998 the mansion in the film came Elizabeth before . It also appeared in the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice . The mansion has since appeared on television, as Thornfield Hall in Derderick Santer's BBC version of Jane Eyre in 2006 and in 2011 Cary Fukunaga's film Jane Eyre .

The mansion was also the setting for A Tudor Feast at Christmas , a documentary from a BBC Two Tudor banquet (first broadcast at Christmas 2006) hosted by a team of Tales from the Green Valley academics . In 1990, Haddon Hall served as the Castle of the Giants in Harfang in the BBC television version of The Silver Armchair , one of CS Lewis ' Chronicles of Narnia .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 25. Haddon Hall, Derbyshire from Alfred J. Gotch: '' The Growth of the English House ''. 1909. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
^ Philip Davis: English Licenses to Crenellate: 1199-1567 in The Castle Studies Group Journal . Issue 20 (2006-2007). Pp. 226-245. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
^ ^A ^b Haddon Hall: History and Virtual Tour; Owners of Haddon Hall . HaddonHall.co.uk. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
^ ^A ^b ^c Edgerton Brydges: Collins's Peerage of England , Volume VII (1812), pp. 399-401.
^ Edward Walford: Tales of Our Great Families: The Heiress of Haddon Hall . London 1877. Haddon Hall Books, 2010 edition ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 March 23, 2015. @1@ 2

↑ David Trutt: Haddon Hall's Dorothy Vernon - The Story of the Legend . HaddonHall.com, June 2006. p. 7. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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 March 23, 2015. @1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b David Trutt: Haddon Hall's Dorothy Vernon - The Story of the Legend . HaddonHall.com, June 2006. p. 8. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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 March 23, 2015. @1@ 2

↑ Although it is known that Dorothy's older sister Margaret married several years before Dorothy, in many versions of the legend this ball is Margaret's bachelorette party .

↑ Haddon Hall . Britain Express. Retrieved March 23, 2015.

↑ Absalom Watkin mentioned the story briefly in his personal notes in 1817, after a visit to Haddon Hall and its owner, William Hage. However, it was not fully told in 1822 in The King of the Peak - A Derbyshire Tale by Allan Cunningham and published in the monthly London Magazine . The story was then further romanticized and later republished in various forms.