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Rochester Castle stands on the east bank of the River Medway in Rochester, Kent, South East England. The 12th-century keep or stone tower, which is the castle's most prominent feature, is one of the best preserved of its time in England or France. Situated on the River Medway and Watling Street, Rochester was a strategically important royal ...
4.Constable of Rochester Castle (1215) 5.Keeper of the kings ports and galleys (1216) 6. Household Knight Traitor John Russell (knight) ~1160–1224 1.Royal Steward 2.Custodian of Corfe Castle (1221–1224) and Sherborne (1224) 3. Sheriff of Somerset (1223–1224) 4. Household Knight Probably a Loyalist Geoffrey de Luterel: 1158–1218 1 ...
Margaret de Badlesmere, Baroness Badlesmere (née de Clare; c. 1 April 1287 – 22 October 1333/January 1334, disputed) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman, suo jure heiress, and the wife of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere.
Monumental brass in Cobham Church of Joan Septvans (d. 1298), wife of John de Cobham (d. 1300) and mother of Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham. He was the son and heir of John de Cobham (d. 1300), [2] of Cobham and of Cooling, Sheriff of Kent, Constable of Rochester Castle in Kent and one of the Barons of the Exchequer, [2] by his wife Joan de Septvans (d. 1298), [3] whose monumental brass ...
On 23 November 1555 [24] he entertained at Cooling Castle Cardinal Reginald Pole, recently landed at Dover and on his way, via Canterbury Cathedral and Rochester Castle, with a following of 500 horsemen, to Gravesend and thence by barge to the Palace of Whitehall to meet Queen Mary I and to re-establish the Roman Catholic faith in England. [25]
By 1223 he had married Lucy, daughter and heiress of John de Hume, before dying on 8 September 1271. His son, John de Grey married Lucy, daughter of Sir Raynold de Mohun of Dunster Castle, Somerset by Hawise, daughter of William le Fleming, and may have outlived his aged father by only a few months, leaving a fifteen-year-old boy to inherit. [1]
A Medieval-inspired castle completed in 1990 is on sale for $2.3 million in Rochester, Michigan. LeBlanc Castle has 26 rooms and includes a moat and drawbridge, and hidden passageways.
Baroness Laing of Elderslie of Epping Forest in the County of Essex: Conservative 22 August 2024 (p.m.) Hilary Cass: Baroness Cass of Barnet in Greater London: Crossbench 23 August 2024 Craig Mackinlay ‡ Baron Mackinlay of Richborough of Rochester in the County of Kent: Conservative 9 October 2024 Catherine Smith [a] Baroness Smith of Cluny