Chirk Castle is in Chirk, Castles in Denbighshire.
The Welsh Castles and Towns of Edward I comprise a number of castles, some with associated planned towns, commissioned as a means of containing the Welsh. They included, from east to west, Flint Castle [Map], Rhuddlan [Map], Conwy Castle [Map], Beaumaris Castle [Map], Caernarfon Castle [Map], Harlech Castle [Map] and Aberystwyth Castle [Map]. Those not on the coast include Chirk Castle [Map], Denbigh Castle and Town Walls [Map] and Builth Castle [Map]. Arguably, Holt Castle [Map] and Criccieth Castle [Map] should be included.
After 1359 John de Mortimer 3rd Baron Mortimer of Chirk [deceased] died. Baron Mortimer of Chirk abeyant presumably. He had surrendered his claim to Chirk Castle [Map] in 1359 and lived in obscurity thereafter.
In 1595 Thomas Myddelton of Chirk [aged 45] purchased Chirk Castle [Map] for £5000.
On 12th August 1631 Thomas Myddelton of Chirk [aged 81] died. Thomas Myddelton of Chirk Castle [aged 45] inherited Chirk Castle [Map].
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1820 Page 464. Sept. 21. "The King [aged 44] passed through Mountgomeryshyre, and lay that night at Llan Fyllin. The next day, the 22d Sept., the King marched from Llan Fyllin by Brithdir, where he dined? and gave proclamation among his souldiers, that they should not plunder any thing in Denbyshire, and thence through Mochnant to Cevn hir Fynydd, and so along the tops of the mountains to Chirk Castle [Map]. The rest of the forces marched to Llan-Silin. The next day after, being Tuesday, the King advanced towards Chester.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1820 Page 464. Sept. 24. "Being Wednesday, the King's forces were routed by the Parlm army in a place called Rowton Moor.
"From Chester the King retreated to Denbigh Castle, and, having layed there two or three nights, retourned to Chirk Castle [Map]. The next morning, viz. 29th, he advanced from thence with his army through Llan-Silin, and quartered that night in Halchdyn1 and so passed through Mountgomeryshyre towards Ludlow.
Note 1. Halchdyn is in Deuddwr, between the rivers Havren and Vyrnwy, aad near Llandrinio. The name of the place has been anglicised into Haughton.
In March 1795 Richard Myddelton [aged 69] died. His son Richard Myddelton [aged 31] inherited Chirk Castle [Map].
On 20th December 1796 Richard Myddelton [aged 32] died unmarried. His sister Charlotte Myddelton [aged 26] and her husband Robert Myddelton-Biddulph [aged 35] inherited Chirk Castle [Map].
On 24th December 1801 Robert Myddelton-Biddulph [aged 40] and Charlotte Myddelton [aged 31] were married. She the heiress of her father Richard Myddelton and brother Richard Myddelton by which she and her husband inherited Chirk Castle [Map].
On 19th August 1843 Charlotte Myddelton [aged 73] died. Her son Colonel Robert Myddelton-Biddulph [aged 38] inherted Chirk Castle [Map].
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After 19th August 1843. St Mary's Church, Chirk [Map]. Monument to Charlotte Myddelton [deceased]. She the last remaining member of the Myddelton family who married Robert Myddelton-Biddulph by which Chirk Castle [Map] came into the possession of the Biddulph family who adopted the surname Myddelton-Biddulph.
Robert Myddelton-Biddulph: In March 1761 he was born. On 20th December 1796 Richard Myddelton died unmarried. His sister Charlotte Myddelton and her husband Robert Myddelton-Biddulph inherited Chirk Castle [Map]. On 24th December 1801 he and Charlotte Myddelton were married. She the heiress of her father Richard Myddelton and brother Richard Myddelton by which she and her husband inherited Chirk Castle [Map]. On 30th August 1814 he died.
On 21st March 1872 Colonel Robert Myddelton-Biddulph [aged 66] died. Richard Myddelton-Biddulph [aged 35] inherited Chirk Castle [Map].
1917, reworked 1922. Augustus John [aged 38]. Portrait of Margherita Dorothy van Raalte Baroness Howard de Walden [aged 27]. Augustus John was first invited to Chirk Castle [Map] in 1912 to paint Margherita's portrait. Although she attended many sittings, the end result was in her words 'a horrible picture which, after a while, he simply painted over'.
Margherita Dorothy van Raalte Baroness Howard de Walden: In 1890 she was born. In 1912 Thomas Scott-Ellis 8th Baron Howard de Walden 4th Baron Seaford and she were married. She by marriage Baroness Howard de Walden, Baroness Seaford of Seaford in Sussex. In 1974 she died.