Saltwood Castle
Saltwood Castle is a castle in the village of Saltwood 2 km north of Hythe in the English county of Kent . The village was named after the castle.
The castle became known as the place where the murder plan against Thomas Becket (1118–1170) was hatched. Later the art historian Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) lived there , then his son Alan Clark (1928-1999), a minister in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet.
history
Origins
The castle was probably built on a site previously used by the Romans. Bronze Age tools and copper bars discovered in Hayne's Wood in 1874 , however, show that the site was inhabited long before that.
On the website is the story from the year 488 BC. BC when Oeric of Kent, son of Hengest and King of Kent, had a castle built on this site. Saltwood Castle is mentioned for the first time on a charter of King Egbert of Wessex in 833. The manor Saltwood was given in 1026 to the priory of Christ Church in Canterbury as a fief. Under King William the Conqueror , Saltwood, which belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury and was lent to Hugo de Montfort in exchange for knightly services , formed part of large estates from Hythe to the New Forest , along the English south coast. The system was replaced by a Norman system in the 12th century . The construction work dragged on over the next 200 years. For a time Saltwood Castle became the residence of Henry of Essex , the constable of England.
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket had asked King Henry II on behalf of the church to restore the castle for use as an ecclesiastical palace. Instead, King Henry lent it to one of his loyal barons named Ranulph de Bloc . This leads to indications that Ranulph de Bloc may have been involved in the murder of Becket. On December 28, 1170 four knights in Saltwood Castle are said to have planned the death of Thomas Becket, which took place the following day in Canterbury Cathedral , about 15 miles away from Saltwood. Hugh de Morville was one of the four knights who carried out the assassination, and with him Reginald Fitzurse , William de Tracy and Richard de Brito .
After Becket's murder, the castle fell back under the control of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Loopholes and the gatehouse , which go back to the years 1385-1394, are attributed to "Henry Yevele" ( bl. 1353-1400), whom BH St. John O'Neil called the "English father of the science of artillery fortifications ". A notched box with arches and rosettes along the front, later fitted with a coffered lid, which used to be in the parish church, is said to have originally come from Saltwood Castle. The Wycliphite records of William Thorpe's embarrassing interrogation in 1407 at Saltwood Castle are known today because they were published by reformists in the 16th century.
Younger story
Saltwood remained Church property until the reign of Henry VIII , when Hythe and Saltwood fell to the Crown. The Dover earthquake on April 6, 1580 made the castle uninhabitable, but was restored in the 19th century to serve again as the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The gatehouse of the castle has since served as a residential building.
During World War II , the Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force, Hermann Göring , ordered that Hythe should not be bombed, as he had chosen Saltwood Castle as his seat after the successful invasion of Great Britain. The castle was the childhood home of Bill Deedes and in 1955 it was bought by Kenneth Clark, whose son Alan Clark later lived there. After his death, Clark was buried on the property that still belongs to the Clark family today.
Individual references and comments
- ^ JG Waller: Bronze Implements in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . Issue 3 (1874). P. 230.
- ^ Saltwood: A Brief History . Saltwood Castle. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
- ↑ As noted in the Domesday Book of 1086.
- ↑ H. Neilson suggests that there was an end-to-end Norman policy of grouping forests and nearby castles where the defense force could be concentrated.
- ^ H. Neilson: Early English Woodland and Waste in The Journal of Economic History . Issue 2 (May 1942). Pp. 59-60.
- ↑ a b c Local History . Saltwood Church of England Primary School. Archived from the original on July 20, 2006. Retrieved June 12, 2006.
- ↑ Janet Shirley: Vie Saint Thomas Le Martyr De Cantobire . In: Garnier's Becket . Scott Ian McLetchie. Pp. 132-165. 1975. Archived from the original on April 29, 2006. 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 June 12, 2006.
- ^ Castles Mentioned in Pillars of the Earth . In: Kristin's Medieval Castles of England . Accessed on June 12, 2006. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ BH St. John O'Neil: Castles and Cannon: A Study of Early Artillery Fortification in England . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1960. p. 21.
- ^ Martin Conway: Some Kentish Chests in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs . Issue 15, No. 78 (September 1909). Pp. 362-363.
- ↑ Anne Hudson: Two Wycliffite text: The Sermon of William Taylor, 1406; The Testimony of William Thorpe, 1407 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993.
- ↑ HD Dale: St. Leonard's Church and the Ancient Town of Hythe . 1931.
- ^ Charles Taylor: Saltwood Castle . ecastles.co.uk. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
- ^ Nazi Hermann Goering Dreamed Life Seaside Hythe . Folkestone Herald. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Real Alan Clark . In: Real Lives . Channel4.com. Retrieved June 12, 2006.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 54.6 ″ N , 1 ° 5 ′ 3.7 ″ E