York Castle is in York [Map], Castles in York.
See: Clifford's Tower.
In February 1294 Simon Constable [aged 51] died at York Castle [Map].
Around 1387 Richard Hastings was born to Ralph Hastings [aged 47] and Maud Sutton [aged 31] at York Castle [Map]. He married after 15th July 1427 Elizabeth Beaumont Baroness Deincourt and Grey, daughter of Henry Beaumont 5th Baron Beaumont and Elizabeth Willoughby Baroness Beaumont.
In 1398 Ralph Hastings [aged 58] died at York Castle [Map]. He was buried at Sulby, Northamptonshire.
In 1433 Richard Hastings Baron Willoughby was born to Leonard Hastings [aged 37] and Alice Camoys at York Castle [Map]. He married before 1st June 1470 Joan Welles 9th Baroness Willoughby of Eresby, daughter of Richard Welles 7th Baron Welles, Baron Willoughby and Joan Willoughby 7th Baroness Willoughby of Eresby.
On 10th September 1436 Richard Hastings [aged 49] died at York Castle [Map].
After 17th February 1461 John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu [aged 30] was imprisoned at York Castle [Map].
Around 1466 Anne Hastings was born to Ralph Hastings and Anne Tattershall [aged 27] at York Castle [Map].
Around 1470 Katherine Hastings was born to Ralph Hastings and Anne Tattershall [aged 31] at York Castle [Map].
Around 1478 Isabel Hastings was born to Ralph Hastings and Anne Tattershall [aged 39] at York Castle [Map].
Around 1480 Elizabeth Hastings was born to Ralph Hastings and Anne Tattershall [aged 41] at York Castle [Map].
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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Around 1486 Emma Hastings was born to Ralph Hastings and Anne Tattershall [aged 47] at York Castle [Map].
Around 1488 Cecilia Hastings was born to Ralph Hastings and Anne Tattershall [aged 49] at York Castle [Map].
On 9th January 1499 Anne Tattershall [aged 60] died at York Castle [Map].
On 24th October 1745 Archbishop Thomas Herring [aged 52] in a speech at York Castle [Map] during the Jacobite Rebellion said:
"these Commotions in the North are but Part of a Great Plan concerted for our Ruin-They have begun under the Countenance, and will be supported by the Forces of France and Spain, our old and inveterate, (and late Experience calls upon me to add, our savage and blood-thirsty) Enemies-A Circumstance that should fire the Indignation of every honest Englishman. If these Designs should succeed, and Popery and Arbitrary Power come in upon us, under the Influence and Direction of these two Tyrannical and Corrupted Courts, I leave you to reflect, what would become of every Thing that is valuable to us! We are now bless'd with the mild Administration of a Just and Protestant King, who is of so strict an Adherence to the Laws of our Country, that not an Instance can be pointed out, during his whole reign, wherein he made the least Attempt upon the Liberty, or Property, or Religion, of a single Person. But if the Ambition and Pride of France and Spain, is to dictate to us, we must submit to a Man to govern us under their hated and accursed Influence, who brings his Religion from Rome, and Rules and Maxims of his Government from Paris and Madrid.".
Horace Walpole 4th Earl Orford [aged 28] said this speech "had as much true spirit, honesty and bravery in it as ever was penned by an historian for an ancient hero".
Flowers of History by Roger of Wendover 1190. Of the dreadful slaughter of the Jews at York. In the same year, during Lent, that is, on the 15th of March, the Jews of the city of York, to the number of five hundred, besides women and children, through fear of an attack on the part of the Christians, by permission of the sheriff and the governor of the castle, shut themselves up in that fortress [Clifford's Tower], and when the garrison required them to give up possession of it, they refused to do so. On this refusal, repeated attacks were made both by day and night, and at length the Jews after reflecting, offered a large sum of money for their lives, but this was refused by the people. Then one of them skilled in the law, rose and addressed his companions thus, "Oh, men of Israel, hear my counsel. It is better, as our law instructs us, to die for our law than to fall into the hands of our enemies." This being agreed to by all, each head of a family came with a sharp razor, and cut the throats first of his wife, sons, and daughters, and afterwards of all his family, and threw the dead bodies, which they considered as sacrificed to devils, on the Christians outside the castle; they then shut themselves up in the king's house, and setting fire to it, both living and dead were burned together with the buildings. After this the citizens and soldiers burned the Jews' houses, with the papers of their debtors, but retained their money for their own use.
Chronicum Anglicanum by Ralph Coggeshall. For at York, more than four hundred Jews had taken refuge in the royal fortress [Clifford's Tower] to escape the persecution of the Christians, who had gathered there for the county assembly. Nevertheless, they were besieged and fiercely attacked by certain knights and citizens of the aforementioned city. When they could no longer withstand the assaults of their besiegers and all hope of escape was lost, they voluntarily brought upon themselves a wretched death out of fear of a more dreadful fate. They chose to perish by mutual slaughter rather than be savagely and disgracefully butchered by their persecutors' fury. Now, among them was a man of advanced age and well-versed in Mosaic law, whom they called Rabbi. All, from the least to the greatest, listened to him. He encouraged them to accept such a horrific manner of death through exhortations and by citing the exemplary teachings of the forefathers in the Old Law. And so, nearly all of them, except for a few who later pretended to convert to belief in the Lord Jesus, obeyed his urging. Taking up a knife, he cut the throats and arteries of each one, having first thrown their wealth into the filthy water that ran below. At last, he likewise took his own life in the same manner. Thus, the enemies of the Christian name left their bodies unburied, exposed to dogs and birds, while their souls were consigned to eternal torment in the flames of Hell.
Nam cum apud Eboracum quadringenti et eo amplius Judæi in munitione regia inclusi haberentur, ob persecutionem Christianorum, qui tunc ad comitatus convenerant, declinandam, nihilominus tamen a quibusdam militibus et prædictæ urbis civibus sunt obsessi et acrius expugnati. Cumque assultus expugnantium diutius ferre non possent, et jam omnis spes evadendi sublata fuisset, miserabilem mortem dirioris mortis metu voluntarie sibi ipsimet accersierunt, eligentes potius mutua cede deperire quam persequentium rabie truculentius atque impudentius jugulari. Erat autem quidam inter eos natu major et in lege Mosaica instructior, quem Rabi cognominabant, cui omnes auscultabant, a minimo usque ad maximum, qui eosdem ad tam horribile genus mortis exhortationibus et exemplari doctrina patrum in Veteri Lege præcedentium, animaveret. Cumque fere omnes, exceptis quibusdam paucis, qui se postmodum in Dominum Jesum credere simularunt, ejus hortatui obtemperarent, ille, arrepto cultro, incidit fibras gutturis singulorum cum arteriis, projectis prius eorum pecuniis in aqua ccenulenta, que subtus decurrebat, ac tandem semetipsum simili morte jugulans. Sicque inimici Christiani nominis cadavers inhumata canibus et avibus exposuerunt; animas vero gehennalibus flammis in perpetuum cruciandas tradentes.
On 12th July 1537 Robert Aske [aged 37] was hanged in chains at Clifford's Tower. The date may have been Friday 06 Jul as implied by the letters of the Duke of Norfolk?
George aka William Lumley and Nicholas Tempest [aged 57] were hanged at Tyburn [Map].