Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire is in Tutbury, Staffordshire, Castles in Staffordshire.
Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map] is on the River Dove around four miles upstream of where it joins the River Trent.
After 1066 Hugh of Avranches 1st Earl Chester [aged 19] was given command of Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
Around 1136 William Ferrers 3rd Earl of Derby was born to Robert Ferrers 2nd Earl of Derby and Margaret Peverell Countess Derby [aged 22] at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map]. He married before 1161 Sybil de Braose Countess Derby, daughter of William de Braose 3rd Baron Bramber and Bertha Gloucester Baroness Bramber, and had issue.
Around 1204 Hugh Ferrers 6th Baron Burford [aged 37] died at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
In 1239 Robert Ferrers 6th Earl of Derby was born to William Ferrers 5th Earl of Derby [aged 46] and Margaret Quincy Countess Derby at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.65%. He married (1) 1249 his fourth cousin Mary or Marie Lusignan Countess Derby, daughter of Hugh XI of Lusignan VI Count of La Marche II Count Angoulême and Yolande Capet Countess Lusignan, La Marche and Angoulême (2) 26th June 1269 his third cousin once removed Eleanor Bohun Countess Derby, daughter of Humphrey Bohun and Eleanor de Braose, and had issue.
On 13th January 1312 Margaret Bardolf Baroness Welles was born to Thomas Bardolf 2nd Baron Bardolf [aged 29] and Agnes Grandison Baroness Bardolf [aged 23] at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map]. She married before 23rd August 1334 Adam Welles 3rd Baron Welles, son of Adam Welles 1st Baron Welles, and had issue.
Around 1320 Mary Plantagenet Baroness Percy was born to Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster [aged 39] and Maud Chaworth [aged 37] at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map]. She a great granddaughter of King Henry III of England. She married before 10th November 1341 her half third cousin once removed Henry Percy 11th and 3rd Baron Percy, son of Henry Percy 10th and 2nd Baron Percy and Idonia Clifford Baroness Percy, and had issue.
On 12th September 1368 Blanche Duchess of Lancaster [aged 26] died at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map]. Her last words were said to be "Souveyne vous de moi" ("Don't forget me") the 'S' of which was possibly subsequently represented on the Lancastrian Esses Collar. She was buried at St Paul's Cathedral [Map]. Her son Henry of Grosmont [aged 1] succeeded 3rd Earl Derby, 6th Earl Lancaster.
On 28th March 1484 Marmaduke Constable [aged 27] was appointed Constable of Tutbury Castle.
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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On 26th January 1569 Mary Queen of Scots [aged 26] was moved to the custody of George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 41] and his wife Bess of Hardwick [aged 42] at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
On 2nd February 1569 George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 41] was Keeper of Mary Queen of Scots [aged 26] at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
In September 1569 George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 41] was Keeper of Mary Queen of Scots [aged 26] at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
In January 1585 John St John 2nd Baron St John [aged 50] made keeper of Mary Queen of Scots [aged 42] at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
1731. Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map] - East View by Nathaniel Buck.
Archaeologia Volume V32 1847 Section X. It was determined, therefore, to place the Queen under his care. The determination appears to have been taken as early as the month of October, for in the private correspondence of the family we find a report of a conversation with Queen Elizabeth in that month, in which she spoke in terms of high regard of the lady whom the earl had recently taken to wife, originally Elizabeth Hardwick, a daughter of the family of that name, to whom Hardwick [Map] belonged, and widow successively of Robert Barley, Sir William Cavendish, and Sir William Saint Loe, and expressed much solicitude to know when the earl might be expected at court; and again, a letter from the earl himself to his countess, written in November, wherein he informs her that he had been at court, and that the Queen had intimated to him that "ere it were long he should well perceive she did so trust him as she did few." He understood this to mean that he was to have the care of the Scottish Queen; and finally, in a third letter, which is dated on the 13th of December, he writes—"Now it is certain the Scots Queen comes to Tutbury [Map], to my chargea."
Note a. Hallamshire, fol. 1819, p. 64. These and other letters, the private and, as to some of them, the very confidential correspondence of Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury, passed, by some means and at some unknown time, out of the archives of the Cavendish family. They lay for half a century buried in a mase of antiquarian collections made by a Yorkshire antiquary of the last century, John Wilson, of Bromhead, where they were discovered by me in 1806. The whole collection was sold by auction a few years ago.
Chronicle of the Monastery of Melsa. On the same day, the said castle of Tutbury [Map] was surrendered to the king.
Eodem die redditum est regi dictum castrum de Tuttebery.
The River Dove rises on Axe Edge Moor, Derbyshire [Map] after which it travels broadly south past Longnor, Saffordshire [Map], Pilsbury [Map], Hartington, Derbyshire [Map], Milldale, Derbyshire [Map], Thorpe, Derbyshire [Map], just before whic it is joined by the River Manifold, Mapleton, Derbyshire [Map], Mayfield, Staffordshire [Map], Norbury, Derbyshire [Map], Rocester, Staffordshire [Map], Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire [Map] and Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map] before joining the River Trent at Newton Solney, Derbyshire [Map].