Llantrisant Castle
| Llantrisant Castle | ||
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 The ruins of the north tower of Llantrisant Castle |
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| Creation time : | after 1246 | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Llantrisant | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 32 '29.9 " N , 3 ° 22' 29" W | |
| Height: | 148 m | |
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Llantrisant Castle is a ruined castle in Wales . The ruins, protected as a Scheduled Monument , are located in the center of the city of Llantrisant in Rhondda Cynon Taf .
history
It is said that the first castle with earth and wood fortifications was built by Robert of Gloucester at the beginning of the 12th century , but this is not documented. The castle was built in its current location after 1246 by Richard de Clare , Lord of Glamorgan, after the occupation of the previously semi-autonomous Welsh rule of Meisgyn . The location in the south of Meisgyn monitored a strategically important connection from the mountains to the coastal lowlands, and the castle served as the administrative center of the conquered area. By 1262 at the latest, a borough was established in the vicinity of the castle. With the construction of the nearby Caerphilly Castle from 1267 and the conquest of the eastern Welsh gentry Senghenydd and Make up in 1272, the plant lost its strategic importance. During the Welsh uprising from 1294 to 1295 , the castle was captured and destroyed by the rebels under Morgan ap Maredudd . After the rebellion was put down, the castle was restored by 1297. During the revolt after the death of Gilbert de Clare in 1314, the castle was again damaged, in early 1316 it was attacked again and badly damaged during the rebellion of Llywelyn Bren . The castle was damaged again during the Despenser War in May 1321, when the rebellious Marcher Lords conquered the estates of Hugh le Despenser , Lord of Glamorgan. In November 1326, the castle allegedly served briefly as a prison for King Edward II , who was captured on the run near Llantrisant . During the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr , the castle was presumably recaptured and destroyed in 1404. After the revolt was put down, the castle was not repaired, but served as a quarry and fell into disrepair. Sir Robert Jones was the last to be made constable of the castle in 1485 and died in 1532.
investment
The castle was built on a flat mountain spur that slopes steeply to the south, on the other sides it was surrounded by a moat. The oval plant was about 25 to 30 m in diameter. The ring wall had at least two powerful round towers on the south and the north side, the approximately 13 m high ruin of the round tower on the north side, the so-called Giguran or Rabe tower , is obtained as a single component of the castle. On the north side of the castle there was probably a bailey , but no remains of this have survived.
The ruin is freely accessible east of the church in the city center of Llantrisant.
literature
- Elisabeth Whittle: Glamorgan and Gwent . HMSO, London 1992. ISBN 0-11-701221-1 , p. 140
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales: An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan: III - Part 1b: Medieval Secular Monuments, the Later Castles from 1217 to the present , Her Maj. Stat. Office, London 2000, ISBN 978-1-871184-22-8 , pp. 185-195
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ancient Monuments: Llantrisant Castle. Retrieved August 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Llantrisant Castle. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 20, 2015 ; accessed on August 30, 2015 . 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.
