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The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain www.e-rara.ch The architectural antiquities of Great Britain Britton, J. London, 1807-1826 ETH-Bibliothek Zürich Shelf Mark: Rar 9289 Persistent Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-46826 History of Ludlow castle, Shropshire. www.e-rara.ch Die Plattform e-rara.ch macht die in Schweizer Bibliotheken vorhandenen Drucke online verfügbar. Das Spektrum reicht von Büchern über Karten bis zu illustrierten Materialien – von den Anfängen des Buchdrucks bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. e-rara.ch provides online access to rare books available in Swiss libraries. The holdings extend from books and maps to illustrated material – from the beginnings of printing to the 20th century. e-rara.ch met en ligne des reproductions numériques d’imprimés conservés dans les bibliothèques de Suisse. 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Son statut juridique et ses conditions d'utilisation sont précisés dans sa notice détaillée. Pour de plus amples informations, voir [Link] Condizioni di utilizzo Questo documento può essere scaricato gratuitamente. Il tipo di licenza e le condizioni di utilizzo sono indicate nella notizia bibliografica del singolo documento. Per ulteriori informazioni vedi anche [Link] history ilutiloto Castle, SHROPSHIRE. BY TIIE REV. J. B . BLAKEWAY. The origin of Ludlow Castle is enveloped in great obscurity. From its Welsh name, Llystwysoc, the princes palace, it should seem to have been an occasional residence of the early kings, or princes of Powis : while from its Saxon name, Ludlowe, Leodhlvwe, i. e. people mote, we may infer, that it was appropriated to the administration of justice , under the sovereigns of Mercia or of England . It is unnoticed in Domesday- book : but Camden, who is followed by all subse¬ quent writers, attributes the foundation of the castle to Roger de Montgomcri, the first Norman earl of Shrewsbury. For this assertion the great antiquary refers to no authority , and, I believe, had none better than a chronicle of the Fitz-W^arins, partly French and partly Latin, a copy of which was possessed by Glover, and another is among Dugdale’s MSS. in the Ashmole library . But this chronicle is replete with falsehood ; and if it has any basis, I am unable to discriminate the authentic from the fictitious. The piesent statement certainly belongs to the latter class. The southern parts of Shropshire not included in the were Conqueror’s grant to the Norman earl. Fiom an incidental passage in Domesday- book, there is great reason to believe, (though that factlias never yet been noticed), that they formed a portion of king William s donation to his kinsman, the brave William Fitz-Osberne, eail of Ilciefoid . and if any earl Roger beyanfor( that is the expression of Glovers MS.) a castle at Lud¬ low, it was Fitz-Osberne' s son, of that name, who might be engaged in such a work, at the time when that conspiracy was discovered, for which he had forfeited his earldom and estates before the compilation of the Domesday Survey : that a building was set about here during the Norman peiiod, is certain, from the very curious circular chapel, and other parts pointed out in the excellent descriptive account , which follows this historical sketch. Though , as I have said , Ludlow is not mentioned in that record, yet it is Arch. Antiqs. Pt.XXXIX . Vox . IV . 2 G 132 ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES. plain, that upon the treason of earl Roger of Hereford, this place, with other extensive manors in the neighbourhood , were granted in capite to Walter de Laci, or Lacy, who most probably held them under the earl before his treason. 13ut Walter ’s son, Roger, rebelled against king Rufus, and Roger’s brother Hugh , (the founder of Lanthony Priory ), died without issue : and on one or other (but most probably on the latter ) of these events, Ludlow, with the other Lacy estates, were reserved by the crown ; when , if we may trust the MS. of Glover , Ilenry I. granted it to Fulke de Dinant , a knight (as appears by his name) of Bretagne. It was certainly holden in the reign of king Stephen, by one Gotso, or Joce de Dinant , who may have been a son of the former, and Gotso appears to have been an adherent of Henry ’s grandson, Fitz-Empress ; since we know that Stephen laid siege to this castle, then in the interest of his rival from the striking , and well-known incident of the imminent danger from which he rescued his companion in arms, the young prince of Scotland. In.the last year of his reign, Stephen granted the earldom of Hereford “ hereditarily” to Robert earl of Leicester, and “ if he can arrange matters with Gotso de Dinant,” says Stephen, “ I freely grant , that the said Gotso may hold his fee, which had been Hugh de Lacy's, of the earl.” The wife of this nobleman was the great grand-daughter of William Fitz Osberne, and his charter justifies what has been said before, of earl Roger’s forfeiture , and its subsequent possession by Lacy. Of the recapture of Ludlow castle by Lacy, and the consequent expul¬ sion of Joce de Dinant , with the gallant exploits of Fulke I’itz-Warin, in sup¬ port of this, his father-in-law, we have a picturesque and romantic account in the Gestes of the Guarines, a MS. abstracted by Leland. Lacy having advanced from Carnham castle to seize his ancient inheritance , had, together with his friend Sir Ernold de Lisle, been taken prisoner by Fitz-Warin, and lodged in “ the prison of Pendover within the castle of Ludlow.” But dc Lisle-, during his captivity , had succeeded in corrupting the virtue of a gentle¬ woman in the household of Sir Joce : by her connivance he effected his escape; by her assistance he re-entered with a band of soldiers into the castle ; and the subsequent suicide of the damsel, after she discovered the treachery of her lover, and had avenged it by his death, was a poor consolation to her master, for his irretrievable loss of this fair domain. The male line of the Lacies expired with the founder of Lanthony , but the name was revived in the person of his nephew. There is little doubt that LUDLOW CASTLE. 133 Hugh de Lacy of this second family, on whom Henry IT. conferred the earl¬ dom of Ulster, regained also the possession of Ludlow, under the sanction of the same monarch : and, in spite of occasional resumptions by the crown, as he or his issue experienced the frowns of their sovereigns, he transmitted these estates to a remote posterity , though his male descendants ended with Walter de Lacy, in the 25th of Henry III ., who left two grand-daughters his coheirs, Margery, wife of John de Vernon, and Maud, wife of Jeffrey de Genevile. Theobald de Vernon, the last of that family, died in 1316, leaving his moiety of Ludlow to his posthumous daughter and coheir, Isabel, the wife of Henry de Ferrars of Groby. Jeffrey de Genevile, or Joinyille , was brother of the celebrated historian of the same name, and was himself lord of Vaucouleur, a town of Berrois on the Meuse. His estates, acquired by the coheiress of Lacy, ultimately centered in his grand-daughter Jane , who brought them in marriage to her husband, Roger de Mortimer, of Wigmore,the paramour of queen Isabel,and the murderer of king Edward II ., who was created earl of March in the 1st year of Edward III . This great man, who was deservedly hanged at Smith Held, three years later, was ultimately succeeded in title by a grandson of the same name, who, de¬ sirous of uniting in himself the entire lordship of Ludlow, gave the manor of Crcndon, in Bucks, to Sir William de Ferrars of Groby, in exchange for that moiety of this manor and town which had descended to Ferrars, from his mother Isabel Vernon. The castle had passed as an entirety to the share of Genevile. It is unnecessary to pursue this brief historical sketch any further . The Mortimer estates centered , as is well known, in Edward IV., by descent from his grandmother , Anne Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge. The castle of Ludlow had been the scene of his infancy and youth : and he continued to regard it with peculiar fondness and affection to the close of his days. He granted the burgesses a charter of incorporation ; he sent his son hither to reside, for the purpose of awing the neighbouring Marchers and Welshmen, with the aid of a standing council, which gradually devolved into a national establishment under the name of “ The Council in the Marches of Wales.” It was from Ludlow castle that this unfortunate young prince proceeded, Hpon the death of his father, to the metropolis, where he was deposed, and 2 G2 134 ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES. most probably murdered by his uncle. Henry VII .
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