Ads
related to: hedingham castle essex england c
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
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)
Funerary Monument of John De Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford in St Nicholas Church, Castle Hedingham, Essex. Oxford's second wife was Elizabeth Trussell, daughter of Edward Trussell (c. 1478 – 16 June 1499) of Kibblestone (Cublesdon), Staffordshire, and Margaret Donne, the daughter of Sir John Donne of Kidwelly(d. 1503) by Elizabeth Hastings (d. 1508).
Important pilgrimage site in medieval England. Hedingham Castle: Castle Hedingham, Essex: c. 1086: The manor of Hedingham was awarded to Aubrey de Vere I by William the Conqueror by 1086. The castle was constructed by the de Veres in the late 11th to early 12th century and the keep in the 1130s and 1140s.
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 ...
Essex shown in England. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Hedingham Castle. More images. Abbey Mill Coggeshall, Braintree: Silk mill: 1820: 2 May 1953