Richard's Castle
Richard's Castle is a ruined castle in the village of the same name, about 9 km south of Ludlow market on the border of the English counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire . The castle ruins are in the Herefordshire area.
Today only earthworks and foundations remain from the fortress . A polygonal donjon stood on a high mound . It was probably reached via a semicircular barbican . The wall of the castle courtyard is up to six meters high in places and contains the remains of various towers and an early gatehouse . Remnants of earthworks from a bailey include the church of St Bartholomew and a defensive wall of the settlement.
history
Richard FitzScrob (or FitzScrope ) was a Norman knight who, prior to the Norman conquest of England, received lands in Worcestershire and Shropshire from the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor , as noted in the Domesday Book of 1086. He had Richard's Castle built in 1051. The castle was a moth , one of only three or four castles of this type before the Norman conquest. Most of the castles of this type were built after the Norman invasion. Richard FitzScrob is last mentioned in 1067. His castle fell to his son, Osbern FitzRichard , who married Nesta , the daughter of the Welsh king Gruffydd ap Llywelyn . Osbern FitzRichard died around 1137 and his grandson Osbern FitzHugh succeeded him. He was married to a sister of Rosamund Clifford and died in 1187. Richard's Castle then fell to his warlike brother-in-law Hugh de Say , who died in 1190 and left the barony and castle to his son, also a Hugh de Say . So the ownership of the castle changed to a different family than the descendants of Richard FitzScrob.
In 1196, the latter, Hugh de Say, fought in a battle near New Radnor in Powys , where he was believed to be killed. Robert de Mortimer of Attleborough in Norfolk inherited his castles . In 1264, his son Hugh Mortimer was forced to surrender and Richard's Castle went to Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester . Hugh Mortimer's grandson, the last Hugh Mortimer of Richard's Castle, was poisoned by his wife in 1304.
The castle then fell to the Talbots because Richard Talbot was married to Joan Mortimer . On December 3, 1329, Joan, Richard Talbot's widow , had it noted in the Patent Rolls (English land register from 1201 to today) that she intended to bequeath Richard's Castle to the chaplain John de Wotton and to William Balle from Unterlith . The Talbots still lived there at the end of the 14th century. In the 16th century the castle was already in ruins.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Great Britain: Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII, AD 1485-1509 . The Hereford Times. 1891. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
swell
- Cate Andrews: The Rectors of Richards Castle 1549-1892 . Richards Castle Local History Group, 1992. ISBN 0-9519522-1-8
- Paul Martin Remfry: Richard's Castle, 1048 to 1219 . SCS Publishing, Worcester 1997. ISBN 1-899376-34-8 . P. 39 ff
- Paul Martin Remfry: The Nine Castles of Burford Barony, 1048 to 1308 . ISBN 1-899376-39-9
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Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 19.2 " N , 2 ° 44 ′ 38.4" W.