Warkworth, Northumberland is in Alnwick Region.
In 1329 Euphemia Clavering Baroness Neville Raby [aged 62] died at Warkworth, Northumberland [Map]. She was buried at St Mary's Church, Staindrop [Map].
Euphemia Clavering Baroness Neville Raby: Around 1267 she was born to Robert Fitzroger 5th Baron Warkworth and Margaret Zouche Baroness Warkworth. Before 1283 Ralph Neville 1st Baron Neville of Raby and she were married. They were sixth cousins.
On 10th July 1555 Mary Salisbury [aged 82] died in Warkworth, Northumberland [Map].
Around 1612 John Rushworth was born to Lawrence Rushworth at Acklington Park, Warkworth [Map].
737. Church of St Lawrence, Warkworth [Map] is next to the River Coquet 2.5km from where the river joins the sea at Amber. A wooden church is mentioned in 737AD when Ceolwulf King Northumbria gave Wercewode aka Warkworth, including the church, to the Abbot of Lindisfarne Abbey [Map].
In 1120 King Henry I "Beauclerc" England [aged 52] gave the Church of St Lawrence, Warkworth [Map] to his chaplain Richard de Aurea Valle. Upon his death, all four churches were given to and became part of the newly formed Diocese of Carlisle and would remain so until Newcastle became a separate diocese in 1882.
In 1132 the building of the present Church of St Lawrence, Warkworth [Map] was commenced.
On 13th July 1174 an army commanded by Duncan II Earl of Fife entered Warkworth and set fire to the town, killing 300 of the inhabitants who had taken refuge in the church [Map].
Around 1350. Church of St Lawrence, Warkworth [Map]. Cross-legged knight from the 14th century, with a shield bearing the arms of the de Abulyn family of Durham.
After 1st April 1915. Church of St Lawrence, Warkworth [Map]. Memorial to Captain Philip Noel Sanderson 1887-1915.
After 26th April 1915. Church of St Lawrence, Warkworth [Map]. Memorial to Captain Philip Noel Sanderson 1887-1915.
Around 1375. Warkworth Bridge, Northumberland [Map], constructed in the late 14th Century, spans the River Coquet at the bottom of the hill in Warkworth, Northumberland [Map] on which is located Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map]. The bridge is a mile from where the River Coquet flows into the North Sea. The bridge measures 43m long between land piers, with an overall length of 61m, by 3.5m wide between the parapet walls. The bridge, built of squared and coursed sandstone, has two segmental ribbed arches, each with a span of 18.4m. Documentary evidence records that John Cook of Newcastle, who died in 1378-9, left 20 marks towards the building of Warkworth Bridge on the condition it was built within two years.
Around 1855. Benjamin Brecknell Turner [aged 40]. Warkworth Bridge, Northumberland [Map].
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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The River Coquet rises around Chew Green, Northumberland [Map] from where it flows past Makendon Northumberland [Map], Blindburn, Northumberland [Map], Barrow Burn, Northumberland [Map], Shillmoor, Northumberland [Map], Linshiels, Northumberland [Map], Alwinton, Northumberland [Map], Harbottle Castle, Northumberland [Map], Sharperton, Northumberland [Map], Holystone, Northumberland [Map], Hepple, Northumberland [Map], Thropton, Northumberland [Map], Rothbury, Northumberland [Map], Pauperhaugh, Northumberland [Map], Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland [Map], Weldon Bridge, Northumberland [Map], Felton, Northumberland [Map], Guyzance, Northumberland [Map] before passing under the bridge at Warkworth Bridge, Northumberland [Map] and reaching the North Sea at Amble, Northumberland [Map].
Around 1150. The date of the first construction of Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map] is somewhat vague being founded by either Henry Dunkeld 3rd Earl Huntingdon 1st Earl of Northumbria [aged 36] or King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England [aged 16] on a motte on a natural mound at the narrowest point of a loop of the River Coquet.
Around 1157 to 1164 Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map] was first documented in a charter of when King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England [aged 23] granted it to Roger Fitzrichard 1st Baron Warkworth. At this time the castle was constructed of wood and was left undefended when the Scots invaded in 1173.
After 1160 Robert Fitzroger 2nd Baron Warkworth was born to Roger Fitzrichard 1st Baron Warkworth and Alice Vere Baroness Warkworth at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map]. He married Margaret Chesney Baroness Warkworth and had issue.
Around 1178 Roger Fitzrichard 1st Baron Warkworth died at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map]. His son Robert [aged 17] succeeded 2nd Baron Warkworth. Margaret Chesney Baroness Warkworth [aged 18] by marriage Baroness Warkworth.
Around 1190 John Fitzrobert 3rd Baron Warkworth was born to Robert Fitzroger 2nd Baron Warkworth [aged 29] and Margaret Chesney Baroness Warkworth [aged 30] at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map]. He married Ada Balliol Baroness Warkworth and had issue.
In 1213 Robert Fitzroger 2nd Baron Warkworth [aged 52] hosted King John of England [aged 46] at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map].
In 1214 Robert Fitzroger 2nd Baron Warkworth [aged 53] died at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map]. His son John [aged 24] succeeded 3rd Baron Warkworth. Ada Balliol Baroness Warkworth by marriage Baroness Warkworth.
Around 20th February 1241 John Fitzrobert 3rd Baron Warkworth [aged 51] died at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map]. His son Roger succeeded 4th Baron Warkworth.
In 1292 King Edward I of England [aged 52] stayed overnight at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map].
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In 1319 King Edward II of England [aged 34] invested in Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map] where he funded the strengthening of the garrison in response to the renewed fighting with the Scots.
In 1332 after the death of John Clavering [aged 66], the last of the male line of Roger Fitzrichard 1st Baron Warkworth, and the death of his wife Hawise Tiptoft [aged 62] in 1345, Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map] passed to Henry Percy 10th and 2nd Baron Percy [aged 30].
Around 1380 Henry Percy 1st Earl of Northumberland [aged 38] commissioned the construction of the massive stone keep at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map].
Warkworth's Chronicle [1461-1474]. 1462. Also Quene Margrett1, Herry Duke of Excetre [aged 31], the Duke of Somersett, and other lordes2 that fleede England, hade kepte certeyne castelles3 in Northumberlond, as Awnwyk [Map], Bambrught [Map], Dunstonebrught [Map], and also Werworthe [Map], whiche they hade vytaled and stuffed bothe with Englischemenne, Frenschemenne, and Scottesmenne, by the whiche castelle, they hade the moste party of alle Northumberlond.
Note 1. Also Quene Margrett. This was in the year 1462. Towards the end of the year Edward appears to have made a tour to the West of England, perhaps for the purpose of seeing how the country was disposed towards him:- "Deinde Rex Edwardus, Cantuariam peregre profectus, partes meridionales pertransiit, ubi Willielmum Episcopum Wintonie de manibus querentium animam ejus eripuit, insectatores suos graviter redarguit, et eorum capitaneos carcerali custodi emancipavit. Bristollie apperians, a civibus ejus cum maximo gaudio honoratissimè receptus est. [Then King Edward, having journeyed to Canterbury, passed through the southern regions, where he rescued William, Bishop of Winchester, from the hands of those seeking his life, severely rebuked his pursuers, and freed their leaders from prison custody. Upon arriving in Bristol, he was received with the utmost joy and honor by its citizens.]" - MS. Arundel, Coll. Arm. 5, fol. 169, ro. This Chronicle in the College of Arms was first used, as far as I know, for an historical purpose, in a MS. note in a copy of Carte's History of England in the Bodleian Library, where it is referred to on the important testimony of the death of Henry VI. Mr. Black quotes it in the Excerpta Historica, but its value does not appear to be fully appreciated by that author; it is the diary of a contemporary writer on the side of the House of York, and extends to the execution of the Bastard of Fauconberg, and Edward's celebration of the feast of Pentecost which took place immediately afterwards.
The following very curious account of the pageant which received Edward at Bristol is from a MS. in Lambeth Palace, No. 306, fol. 132, ro. I am indebted for it to the Rev. S. R. Maitland, F.R.S., Librarian to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who had the extreme kindness, at my request, to send me a transcript.
"The receyvyng of Kyng Edward the iiijth, at Brystowe.
"First, at the comyng inne atte temple gate, there stode Wylliam Conquerour, with iij. lordis, and these were his wordis:
'Wellcome Edwarde! oure son of high degre;
Many yeeris hast thou lakkyd owte of this londe-
I am thy forefader, Wylliam of Normandye,
To see thy welefare here through Goddys sond. '
"Over the same gate stondyng a greet Gyant delyveryng the keyes.
"The Receyvyng atte Temple Crosse next following;
" There was Seynt George on horsbakke, uppon a tent, fyghtyng with a dragon; and the Kyng and the Quene on hygh in a castell, and his doughter benethe with a lambe; and atte the sleying of the dragon ther was a greet melody of aungellys."
9th September 1461. Sir Bawdan (or Baldwin) Fulford [aged 46] was brought before the King, and beheaded at this place on the ninth of September; his head was placed upon Castle Gate. Rot. C. 8. Mus. Brit.
Note 2. And other lordes. Among them was Thomas Lord Roos [aged 34]. Paston Correspondence, vol. I. p. 219.
Note 3. Certeyne castelles in Northumberlond. See two contemporary accounts of the sieges of these castles, edited by Mr. Black, in the Excerpta Historica, p. 365.
1798. Thomas Girtin [aged 22]. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map].
1799. Joseph Mallord William Turner [aged 23]. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map]
Around 1855. Benjamin Brecknell Turner [aged 40]. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map].
Annals of King Richard II. On the following Monday, the Earl of Northumberland, hastening with a strong force towards his son, or certainly towards the king, as is thought, to advance the business of peace, learned that the Earl of Westmorland and Robert Waterton had gathered a large army, which would be an obstacle to him if he decided to proceed. Since he believed neither of these men to be well disposed towards him, he turned his reins back in retreat, until he came to Newcastle upon Tyne. The citizens, seeing the army following him, closed the gates against it. When those who had come with him saw this, they immediately rushed against them and resolved to enter the town, even against the will of the citizens. Yet they were driven back by the courage of the citizens. At last the earl, more moderate than the rest, begged for entry, so that he might rest there that night. The citizens answered that, if it pleased him to enter with the private household of his own house, he was very welcome, but with an army, by no means. The earl accepted the condition and rested in the town, sleeping there that night and dining there the next day with a few men. But the restless army, shut outside, whether from the heat of revenge or from suspicion that their lord the earl had been betrayed, is not known, came up to the walls and tried in hostile fashion to attack the town. But their effort achieved nothing, because they were driven back, shot down with bows, and sharply beaten. The earl, as best he could, gave satisfaction by excusing himself to the citizens, and withdrew. He dismissed the army, because he now knew that his son was dead, and retired with his daily household to Warkworth [Map], his own castle.
Die Lunæ sequente, Comes Northumbriæ, cum manu valida, versus fillum suum properans, aut certe versus Regem, ut putatur, pro pacis promovendo negotio, cognovit Comitem Westmerlondiæ et Robertum Watertone grandem contraxisse exercitum, qui foret ei obstaculo, si progredi decrevisset. Ipse vero neutrum horum sibi credens benevolum, fræna reflexit revertendo, donec pervenit ad Novum Castrum super Tynam. Cives sequentem cernentes exercitum, contra illum clauserunt januas ; quod videntes qui cum illo venerat, mox intravit eos propter impetus, et villam intrare, etiam civibus nolentibus, decrevissent. Qui tamen probitate civium sunt repulsi Tandem Comes, moderatior cæteris, ingressum precabatur, ut requiescere posset ibidem nocte illa. Cives autem responderunt, si placeret sibi cum privata familia suæ domus ingredi, bene liceret, sed cum exercitu nullo sensu. Comes, acceptans conditionem, requievit in villa, [ibi] dormiens ea nocte, et in crastino prandens, cum paucis ; sed exclusus inquietus exercitus, nescitur an ardore vindictæ, an suspicione proditionis domini sui, Comitis, ad muros applicant, et hostili more villam invadere laborabant. Sed nil profecit ipsorum molitio; quia repulsi dejecti sunt arcubus, et acriter verberati Comes vero, prout potuit, satisfecit, excusando se civibus, et recessit ; dimisitque exercitum, quia jam noverat fillum suum mortuum ; et secessit cum cotidiana familia ad Werkworthe, proprium castrum suum.
Margaret Chesney Baroness Warkworth died at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map].
Roger Fitzjohn 4th Baron Warkworth was born to John Fitzrobert 3rd Baron Warkworth and Ada Balliol Baroness Warkworth at Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map].