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Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles

Constables of Castles is in Constable.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable Vernon

In April 1422 John Wenlock 1st Baron Wenlock (age 22) was appointed Constable Vernon.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Bamburgh Castle

In 1489 Thomas Darcy 1st Baron Darcy Templehurst (age 22) was appointed Constable of Bamburgh Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Beaumaris Castle

In 1440 William Bulkeley (age 22) was appointed Constable of Beaumaris Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Berkeley Castle

In 1544 Maurice Berkeley (age 38) was appointed Constable of Berkeley Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Bristol Castle

On 1st April 1616 George Chaworth 1st Viscount Chaworth (age 62) was appointed Constable of Bristol Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Calais

In 1493 Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 21) was appointed Constable of Calais.

Anthony Browne was appointed Constable of Calais.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Canterbury Castle

In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Canterbury Castle.

In 1463 William Peche (age 42) was appointed Constable of Canterbury Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Cardigan Castle

On 16th February 1470 Roger Vaughan (age 60) was appointed Constable of Cardigan Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Castle Rising

In 1542 William Sharington (age 47) was appointed Constable of Castle Rising.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Chinon Castle

Before 1202 Hubert de Burgh Count Mortain 1st Earl Kent (age 31) was appointed Count Mortain Mortagne, and as Constable of Dover Castle, Constable of Windsor Castle, Constable of Chinon Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Corfe Castle

In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Corfe Castle, Dorset.

On 24th September 1329 John Maltravers 1st Baron Maltravers (age 39) was appointed Constable of Corfe Castle, Dorset.

Patent Rolls. 2nd March 1478. Grant for life to the king's counsellor John Audeley, lord Audeley (age 52), of the office of steward of all lordships, manors and lands in the county of Dorset late of George, late duke of Clarence (deceased), and in the king's hands by his forfeiture, with 20 marks yearly from the issues of the lordship of Halisbere, co. Dorset; grant to him, during minority, of the office of steward of all lordships, manors and lands in the said county in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Edward (age 3), son of the said George, with 10 marks yearly from the issues of the premises; and grant to him for life of the office of constable and the custody of the castle of Warden and the office of constable and the custody of the castle of Corffe, with the accustomed fees from the issues of the king's lordships there and all other profits. By p.s.

Roger Damory 1st Baron Damory was appointed Constable of Corfe Castle, Dorset.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Denbigh Castle

In 1454 Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley (age 21) was appointed Constable of Denbigh Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Devizes Castle

Richard Grey was appointed Constable of Devizes Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Dublin Castle

After 12th November 1555 Jacques Wingfield (age 36) was appointed Constable of Dublin Castle and Master of the Ordnance.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Dudley Castle

In 1553 John Lyttelton of Frankley (age 33) was appointed Constable of Dudley Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Flint Castle

In 1664 Ralph Whitley was appointed Constable of Flint Castle.

In 1689 Thomas Whitley of Peel Hall (age 38) was appointed joint Constable of Flint Castle for life.

In March 1750 Other Lewis Windsor 4th Earl Plymouth (age 18) was appointed Constable of Flint Castle.

In 1775 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (age 60) was appointed Constable of Flint Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Gilgerran Castle

In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Gilgerran Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Harlech Castle

In 1521 Francis Bryan (age 31) was appointed Constable of Harlech Castle which office he held until his death in 1550.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Haverfordwest Castle

In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Haverfordwest Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Hawarden Castle

John Davies of Broadlane was appointed Constable of Hawarden Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Hertford Castle

In 1518 Francis Bryan (age 28) was appointed Constable of Hertford Castle which office he held until 1534.

In 1554 John Mordaunt 2nd Baron Mordaunt (age 46) was appointed Constable of Hertford Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Knaresborough Castle

In 1485 George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 25) was appointed Constable of Pontefract Castle and Constable of Knaresborough Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Launceston Castle

In 1576 William Killigrew (age 21) was appointed Constable of Launceston Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Leeds Castle

In 1312 Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere (age 36) was appointed Constable of Leeds Castle.

On 1st March 1378 John Devereux 1st Baron Devereux (age 41) was appointed Constable of Leeds Castle.

Before 11th November 1470 Ralph St Leger (age 40) was appointed Constable of Leeds Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Lincoln Castle

In 1169 Richard de la Haie died. His daughter Nichola de la Haie (age 19) inherited the office of hereditary Constable of Lincoln Castle.

In 1191 regent Bishop William Longchamp removed the offices of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire and Constable of Lincoln Castle from Nichola de la Haie (age 41) and her husband Gerard Canville (age 59).They refused to hand over the castle. While Camville stayed with Prince John at Nottingham, Nicola held out against a month-long siege. Having failed to take the castle, Longchamp reached a compromise with Camville and restored him to his two posts, but then had him excommunicated. When King Richard returned from crusade and captivity in 1194, he removed Camville from both posts.

In 1199 King John of England (age 32) restored the offices of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire and Constable of Lincoln Castle to Nichola de la Haie (age 49) and her husband Gerard Canville (age 67).

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Norham Castle

In 1319 Thomas Grey (age 39) was appointed Constable of Norham Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Norwich Castle

Patent Rolls. 21st July 1461. Westminster Palace [Map]. The like to John Howard (age 36), king's knight, the office of the constableship and custody of Norwich Castle [Map] from Exeter lats, with the fees as in the times of Edward III and Richard II from the issues of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.

Thomas Burgh was appointed Constable of Norwich Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Nottingham Castle

In September 1266 Roger Leybourne (age 51) was knighted and was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.

In 1343 John Darcy 1st Baron Darcy of Knayth (age 63) was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.

On 2nd March 1456 Humphrey Bourchier (age 25) was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle and Warden of Sherwood Forest which offices had previously been held by his late father-in-law Ralph Cromwell 3rd Baron Cromwell who had died in January 1456.

On 11th March 1489 Thomas Lovell was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.

In October 1612 Francis Manners 6th Earl of Rutland (age 34) was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Pembroke Castle

In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Pembroke Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Pevensey Castle

On 7th December 1393 John Pelham (age 38) was appointed Constable of Pevensey Castle for life.

In 1550 Robert Oxenbridge (age 42) was appointed Constable of Pevensey Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Pontefract Castle

Before June 1396 John Savile of Shelley and Golcar (age 71) was appointed Constable of Pontefract Castle.

In 1399 Robert Waterton (age 39) was appointed Constable of Pontefract Castle. In January 1400 he was given custody of King Richard II of England (age 31) who died shortly thereafter.

In 1485 George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 25) was appointed Constable of Pontefract Castle and Constable of Knaresborough Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Queenborough Castle

In 1477 William Cheney (age 33) was appointed Constable of Queenborough Castle.

Letters of Horace Walpole. 7th August 1572. This morning we have been to Penshurst [Map] - but, oh! how fallen!341 The park seems to have never answered its character: at present it is forlorn; and instead of Sacharissa's342 cipher carved on the beeches, I should sooner have expected to have found the milkwoman's score. Over the gate is an inscription, purporting the manor to have been a boon from Edward VI to Sir William Sydney. The apartments are the grandest I have seen in any of these old palaces, but furnished in tawdry modern taste. There are loads of portraits; but most of them seem christened by chance, like children at a foundling hospital. There is a portrait of Languet343, the friend of Sir Philip Sydney (age 17); and divers of himself and all his great kindred; particularly his sister-in-law, with a vast lute, and Sacharissa, charmingly handsome, But there are really four very great curiosities, I believe as old portraits as any extant in England: they are, Fitzallen, Archbishop of Canterbury, Humphry Stafford, the first Duke of Buckingham; T. Wentworth, and John Foxle; all four with the dates of their commissions as constables of Queenborough Castle, from whence I suppose they were brought. The last is actually receiving his investiture from Edward the Third, and Wentworth is in the dress of Richard the Third's time. They are really not very ill done.344 There are six more, only heads; and we have found since we came home that Penshurst belonged for a time to that Duke of Buckingham. There are some good tombs in the church, and a very Vandal one. called Sir Stephen of Penchester. When we had seen Penshurst, we borrowed saddles, and, bestriding the horses of our postchaise, set out for Hever [Map]345, to visit a tomb of Sir Thomas Bullen, Earl of Wiltshire, partly with a view to talk of it in Anna Bullen's walk at Strawberry Hill. But the measure of our woes was not full, we could not find our way and were forced to return; and again lost ourselves in coming from Penshurst, having been directed to what they call a better road than the execrable one we had gone.

Note 341. Evelyn, who visited Penshurst exactly a century before Walpole, gives the Following brief notice of the place:-"July 9, 1652. We went to see Penshurst, the Earl of Leicester's, famous once for its gardens and excellent fruit, and for the noble conversation which Was wont to meet there, celebrated by that illustrious person Sir Philip Sidney, who there composed divers of his pieces. It stands in a park, is finely watered, and was now full of company, on the marriage of my old fellow-collegiate, Mr. Robert Smith, who marries Lady Dorothy Sidney, widow of the Earl of Sunderland."-E.

Note 342. Lady Dorothy Sidney, daughter of Philip, Earl of Leicester [Note. Mistake? She was sister of Philip Earl of Leicester]; of whom Waller was the unsuccessful suitor, and to whom he addressed those elegant effusions of poetical gallantry, in which she is celebrated under the name of Sacharissa. Walpole here alludes to the lines written at Penshurst-

"Go, boy, and carve this passion on the bark

Of yonder tree, which stands the sacred mark

Of noble Sydney's birth; when such benign,

Such more than mortal-making stars did shine,

That there they cannot but for ever prove

The monument and pledge of humble love;

His humble love, whose hope shall ne'er rise higher,

Than for a pardon that he dares admire."-E.

Note 343. Hubert Tanguet, who quitted the service of the Elector of Saxony on account of his religion, and attached himself to the Prince of Orange. He died in 1581.-E.

Note 344. In Harris's History of Kent, he gives from Philpot a list of the constables of Queenborough Castle, p. 376; the last but one of whom, Sir Edward Hobby, is said to have collected all their portraits, of which number most probably were these ten.

Note 345. Hever Castle was built in the reign of Edward III, by William de Hevre, and subsequently became the property of the Boleyn family. In this castle Henry VIII passed the time of his courtship to the unfortunate Anne Boleyn; whose father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, was Created Earl of wiltshire and Ormond, 1529 and 1538.-E.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Raglan Castle

On 22nd July 1509 Richard Herbert (age 67) was appointed Constable of Raglan Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Rochester Castle

In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Rochester Castle.

In 1304 Henry Cobham 1st Baron Cobham (age 44) was appointed Constable of Rochester Castle.

John Cobham was appointed Constable of Rochester Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Sandal Castle

Before 5th June 1511 Edward Stanhope (age 49) was appointed Constable of Sandal Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Scarborough Castle

Close Rolls Edward II 1307-1313. 24th January 1308 King Edward II of England (age 23). Westminster Palace [Map]. To John Sampson (age 61), constable of the king's castle of Scardeburgh [Map]. Order to permit Henry Percy (age 34) and his consort and their household to dwell in the houses within the said castle, provided that the castle be safely guarded.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Sheriff Hutton Castle

In or before 1551 William Pickering (age 33) was appointed Keeper of Keeper of Sheriff Hutton Park and Constable of Sheriff Hutton Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Southampton Castle

In 1361 Richard Pembridge (age 41) was appointed Constable of Southampton Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Stafford Castle

by 1522 Edward Littleton (age 17) was appointed Gentleman Usher. Around the same time he was appointed Constable of Stafford Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Tenby Castle

In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Tenby Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Tonbridge Castle

In 1324 Henry Cobham 1st Baron Cobham (age 64) was appointed Constable of Tonbridge Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Tutbury Castle

On 28th March 1484 Marmaduke Constable (age 27) was appointed Constable of Tutbury Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Wallingford Castle

In 1216 Richard Fitzroy (age 26) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.

In 1375 Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford (age 37) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.

In 1434 William "Jackanapes" de la Pole 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 37) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.

Around 1465 John de la Pole 2nd Duke of Suffolk (age 22) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.

In 1482 Richard Grey (age 25) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.

In 1536 Francis Bryan (age 46) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Warwick Castle

After 1520 Richard Cecil (age 25) was appointed Groom of the Robes and Constable of Warwick Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Wicklow Castle

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Winchester Castle

In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Winchester Castle.

Culture, England, Crown, Constables of Castles, Constable of Wressle Castle

In 1513 William Babthorpe (age 24) was appointed Constable of Wressle Castle.