Payn de Chaworth

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Kidwelly Castle, which Payn de Chaworth developed into a concentric castle

Payn de Chaworth (* around 1245 , † 1279 ) was an English nobleman and military.

Life

Payn came from the Anglo-Norman family Chaworth . He was the eldest son of Patrick de Chaworth , a Welsh Marcher Lord , and his wife Hawise de Londres . After his father's death around 1258, he inherited the Kidwelly estate in south-west Wales, Ogmore Castle in Glamorgan and other lands in England. Together with his younger brother Patrick he took part in Prince Edward's crusade . After his return from the Holy Land , he began, probably inspired by the Crusader castles , with the expansion of Kidwelly Castle around 1274 . Even before Edward I's war against Llywelyn ap Gruffydd , the Prince of Wales, he undertook raids on Welsh territories in the summer of 1276. In the campaign of 1277 he was one of the three English army commanders and commanded the English troops in West Wales. He achieved through negotiations that the Welsh lords Rhys ap Maredudd and Gruffydd ap Maredudd submitted to the English king. However, in April he was replaced as commander by Edmund Crouchback , the king's brother. In June 1277 the Welsh Lord Rhys Wyndod gave him Dinefwr Castle . In 1278 the king appointed him one of the two members of a royal judicial commission for West Wales. However, Payn died in 1279, so that the judicial commission was effectively dissolved.

Inheritance and family

Payn's heir became his younger brother, Patrick. After the latter also died in 1283, Patrick's one-year-old daughter Maud became the heir of the Chaworth lands. Patrick's widow Isabella , daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick , was second married in 1285, Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California Press, Berkeley 1988. ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , pp. 175f
  2. ^ David Walker: Medieval Wales . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990. ISBN 0-521-32317-7 , p. 145