Nottingham Castle is in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire [Map], Castles in Nottinghamshire.
Chronicle of Roger de Hoveden. [Around March 1194] And Count David [aged 42], brother of the King of Scotland [aged 51], along with Ranulf [aged 24], Earl of Chester, and the William [aged 26], Earl of Ferrers, besieged the castle of Nottingham [Map] with a great army.
Et comes David, frater regis Scotiæ, et Ranulfus comes Cestrie, et comes de Fereres, cum magno exercitu obsedit castellum de Nothingham.
In September 1266 Roger Leybourne [aged 51] was knighted and was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.
On 16th March 1322 the rebel army led by Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln [aged 44] attempted to cross the bridge over the River Ure (between Ripon and York) at Boroughbridge Bridge [Map]. Their path was blocked by forces loyal to the King led by Andrew Harclay 1st Earl Carlisle [aged 52]. Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere [aged 46], Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March [aged 34], John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort [aged 57] and John Maltravers 1st Baron Maltravers [aged 32] fought for the rebels. Roger Clifford 2nd Baron Clifford [aged 22], Nicholas Longford [aged 37], Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln, John Mowbray 2nd Baron Mowbray [aged 35] were captured.
Warin Lisle [aged 51] was hanged after the battle at Pontefract [Map].
Following the battle Hugh Audley 1st Earl Gloucester [aged 31] and his wife Margaret Clare Countess Gloucester were both imprisoned. He in Nottingham Castle [Map] and she in Sempringham Priory [Map].
John Clinton 2nd Baron Clinton [aged 22], Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke [aged 22], William Latimer 2nd Baron Latimer of Corby [aged 46], Robert Lisle 1st Baron Lisle [aged 34], Domhnall Mar II Earl of Mar [aged 29] and Peter Saltmarsh [aged 42] fought for the King.
Adam Everingham 1st Baron Everingham of Laxton [aged 43] was captured.
Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex [aged 46] was killed. His son John [aged 15] succeeded 5th Earl Hereford, 4th Earl Essex.
Piers Grandison 2nd Baron Grandison [aged 31] fough for the rebels, and was captured.
Hugh Audley 1st Baron Audley of Stratton Audley [aged 55] surrendered before the battle and was imprisoned in Wallingford Castle [Map] for the rest of his life
John Giffard 2nd Baron Giffard Brimpsfield [aged 34] was captured.
Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March was imprisoned at Tower of London [Map].
On 19th October 1330 John Neville 1299-1335, William Eland, William Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton [aged 20], William Clinton 1st Earl Huntingdon [aged 26] and William Montagu 1st Earl Salisbury [aged 29], friends of King Edward III of England [aged 17] secretly entered Nottingham Castle [Map] through tunnels, met with King Edward III of England, and arrested Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March [aged 43] and his son Geoffrey Mortimer [aged 21] in the presence of Isabella of France Queen Consort England [aged 35].
Chronicle of Robert Fabyan [-1512]. [17th October 1330]. In ye moneth of Octobre, upon the xvii. daye, and euyn of seynt Luke, syr Roger Mortymer [aged 43] before named, by means of syr Wyllyam Montaygne [aged 29], syr Rafe Staforde, syr lohn Neuyle, and other, by a compassyd meane was takyn in the castell of Notyngham [Map], notwithstandyrige that the keyes of the sayde eastell were dayly and nyghtlye under his warde and kepynge; the kynge, the quene, the olde quene [aged 35], with dyuerse other noblys that beynge in the same eastell lodgyd. The maner of the takynge of this erle syr Roger Mortymer I passe ouer, for the dyuersyte that I haue seen thereof of sundry wryters; but many agreen, yt he with syr Symonde of Bedforde, & other, were in that nyght takyn, and after sent unto the Towre of London, and there put in streyghte kepynge. Then the kynge, in short processe after, callyd a parlyament at London for ye reformacion of many thynges rnysorderyd in the realme, by mtatie of the foresayde syr Roger, as the comon fame then went.
In 1343 John Darcy 1st Baron Darcy of Knayth [aged 63] was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.
On 2nd March 1456 Humphrey Bourchier [aged 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.
On 5th August 1570 Edward Manners 3rd Earl of Rutland [aged 21] was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle [Map] and steward, keeper, warden, and chief justice of Sherwood Forest.
In October 1612 Francis Manners 6th Earl of Rutland [aged 34] was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.
Gruffudd ab Owain Glyndŵr Mathrafal was imprisoned at Nottingham Castle [Map].