Whitwick Castle
Whitwick Castle was a castle in the village of Whitwick in the English county of Leicestershire .
The moth was from the 12th century and belonged to the Earls of Leicester . In 1320 "Henricus de Bello Monte, Consanguineus Regis" (German: Henry Beaumont, blood relative of the king) received a royal permit to fortify his house (English: License to Crenellate). The implementation of this permit could have provoked an attack by Sir John Talbot . Beaumont claimed the land as his wife had inherited it and it appears Talbot Whitwick wanted to claim too. Twenty years later the property was no longer worth anything.
It was documented as a ruin as early as 1427. The foundations are said to have been visible at the end of the 18th century and there was a wall on the north side of the site until 1893.
The mound is now called Castle Hill and on it is a 19th century folly with battlements . This had a local landowner, Joseph Almond Cropper , built as a poor house in 1846 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Whitwick Castle, Coalville . In: Gatehouse Gazetteer . March 25, 2015. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 25 ″ N , 1 ° 21 ′ 20 ″ W.