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Hedingham Castle, in the village of Castle Hedingham, Essex, is arguably the best preserved Norman keep in England. [2] The castle fortifications and outbuildings were built around 1100, and the keep around 1140. However, the keep is the only major medieval structure that has survived, albeit less two turrets.
Castle Hedingham is a village in northern Essex, England, located four miles west of Halstead and 3 miles southeast of Great Yeldham in the Colne Valley on the ancient road from Colchester, Essex, to Cambridge. It developed around Hedingham Castle, the ancestral seat of the de Veres, Earls of Oxford.
Verily Anderson, The De Veres of Castle Hedingham (Terence Dalton, 1993) Severne A. Ashhurst Majendie, Some Account of the Family of De Vere, the Earls of Oxford, and Castle Hedingham in Essex (Davey, 1904) 2nd edition enlarged; James Ross, John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442-1513): 'The Foremost Man of the Kingdom' (Boydell Press, 2011)
Hedingham Priory was a Benedictine nunnery in Castle Hedingham, Essex, founded in or before 1190 by Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford, perhaps in partnership with his third wife, Agnes of Essex. It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, St. James, and the Holy Cross.
After the war, Majendie developed a close relationship with Dr Margery Blackie, who began to spend every weekend at Hedingham and consider the castle home. In 1951, Majendie and Blackie donated two acres of land, which had been intended for use as a war memorial until an alternative site was found, to the Halstead Council for building council ...
John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, born 23 April 1408 [2] at Hedingham Castle, was the elder son of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, and his second wife, Alice, the widow of Guy St Aubyn, and daughter of Sir Richard Sergeaux of Colquite, Cornwall, by his second wife, Philippa (d. 13 Sep 1399), [3] the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edmund Arundel.
Hedingham Castle in Essex, primary seat of the Earls of Oxford. Soon after his father's death in 1141, Aubrey III de Vere was recruited by Empress Matilda.Aubrey's brother-in-law, Geoffrey de Mandeville first earl of Essex, apparently negotiated the offer of the earldom of Cambridge, with a secondary offer of one of four counties if Cambridgeshire was claimed by her kinsman.
Oxford died on 10 March 1513 at Castle Hedingham and was buried on 24 April at Colne Priory. He had no issue by either of his two marriages, and was succeeded as Earl by his nephew, John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford , the second but only surviving son of Sir George Vere , third son of the 12th Earl, and his wife, Margaret Stafford, the daughter ...