Ludlow

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Ludlow
Ludlow from the southwest
Ludlow from the southwest
Coordinates 52 ° 22 ′  N , 2 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′  N , 2 ° 43 ′  W
Ludlow (England)
Ludlow
Ludlow
Residents 10,500
administration
Post town LUDLOW
ZIP code section SY8
prefix 01584
Part of the country England
region West Midlands
Ceremonial county Shropshire
Unitary authority Shropshire
British Parliament Ludlow

Ludlow is an English town in the county of Shropshire , near the border of England to Wales . It has 9850 inhabitants and was the administrative seat of the former district of South Shropshire . In it is Ludlow Castle .

The city is a member of Cittàslow , a movement founded in Italy in 1999 to slow down and improve the quality of life in cities.

history

Ludlow Castle
Ludlow Bridge

The town and castle go back to the founding of the Norman noble family De Lacy . Walter de Lacy was awarded lands in the Welsh border area by William the Conqueror for his participation in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 . He and his descendants founded the city in an almost rectangular bend in the Teme River and equipped it with a strong fortification. According to Norman tradition, a wooden moth was first made on a mound of earth. In Ludlow, this was probably the hill that gave the city its name in the syllable "low". "Lud" means something like "loud" and indicates the roar of the rapids of the river Mere at this point. The oldest stone-built part of the castle that is still preserved today is the inner courtyard, which was built between 1086 and 1094 by Walter de Lacy's son Roger de Lacy. In 1130 the keep was added.

The city was expanded through donations from the de Lacy family and was first mentioned in a document in 1138. In 1177 the city is said to have had 1172 inhabitants (in 2005 it had 9850 inhabitants).

The town and castle were inherited from the Mortimer family in 1306. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March was in disputes with Edward II and Edward III. involved.

During the Wars of the Roses , Ludlow Castle was briefly the headquarters of the leaders of the House of York : The later Edward IV gathered his supporters here in late summer 1459, but was still placed in Ludlow by the army of Margaret of Anjou and lost the Battle of Ludlow on December 12th October 1459, leading to his flight abroad and the preliminary victory of the House of Lancaster .

In the late Middle Ages Ludlow was the seat of the "Council of Wales and the Marches"; Residence of the Prince of Wales , namely Arthur Tudors , who died there in 1502, and his wife Katharina von Aragón , as well as Maria Tudor , who resided there with her own court from 1525 to 1528.

geology

The Ludlow (rarely also Ludlowium or Ludlovium) is a chronostratigraphic series in the history of the earth within the Silurian , which was named after the city of Ludlow.

literature

  • Paul M. Kendall: Richard III, King of England - Myth and Reality ; Munich 1957;

See also

Web links

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