Constables of Castles
Constables of Castles is in Constable.
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In Apr 1422 John Wenlock 1st Baron Wenlock (age 22) was appointed Constable Vernon.
Constable of Bamburgh Castle
In 1489 Thomas Darcy 1st Baron Darcy Templehurst (age 22) was appointed Constable of Bamburgh Castle.
Constable of Beaumaris Castle
In 1440 William Bulkeley (age 22) was appointed Constable of Beaumaris Castle.
Constable of Berkeley Castle
In 1544 Maurice Berkeley (age 38) was appointed Constable of Berkeley Castle.
Constable of Bristol Castle
On 01 Apr 1616 George Chaworth 1st Viscount Chaworth (age 62) was appointed Constable of Bristol Castle.
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In 1493 Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 21) was appointed Constable of Calais.
Anthony Browne was appointed Constable of Calais.
Constable of Canterbury Castle
In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Canterbury Castle.
In 1463 William Peche (age 42) was appointed Constable of Canterbury Castle.
Constable of Cardigan Castle
On 16 Feb 1470 Roger Vaughan (age 60) was appointed Constable of Cardigan Castle.
Constable of Castle Rising
In 1542 William Sharington (age 47) was appointed Constable of Castle Rising.
Constable of Chinon Castle
Before 1202 Hubert de Burgh Count Mortain 1st Earl Kent (age 32) was appointed Count Mortain Mortagne, and as Constable of Dover Castle, Constable of Windsor Castle, Constable of Chinon Castle.
Constable of Corfe Castle, Dorset
In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Corfe Castle, Dorset.
On 24 Sep 1329 John Maltravers 1st Baron Maltravers (age 39) was appointed Constable of Corfe Castle, Dorset.
Calendars. 02 Mar 1478. Grant for life to the king's counsellor John Audeley, lord Audeley (age 52), of the office of steward of all lordships, manors and lands in the county of Dorset late of George, late duke of Clarence (deceased), and in the king's hands by his forfeiture, with 20 marks yearly from the issues of the lordship of Halisbere, co. Dorset; grant to him, during minority, of the office of steward of all lordships, manors and lands in the said county in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Edward (age 3), son of the said George (deceased), with 10 marks yearly from the issues of the premises; and grant to him for life of the office of constable and the custody of the castle of Warden and the office of constable and the custody of the castle of Corffe, with the accustomed fees from the issues of the king's lordships there and all other profits. By p.s.
Roger Damory 1st Baron Damory was appointed Constable of Corfe Castle, Dorset.
Constable of Denbigh Castle
In 1454 Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley (age 21) was appointed Constable of Denbigh Castle.
Constable of Devizes Castle
Richard Grey was appointed Constable of Devizes Castle.
Constable of Dublin Castle
After 12 Nov 1555 Jacques Wingfield (age 36) was appointed Constable of Dublin Castle and Master of the Ordnance.
Constable of Dudley Castle
In 1553 John Lyttelton of Frankley (age 33) was appointed Constable of Dudley Castle.
Constable of Flint Castle
In 1664 Ralph Whitley was appointed Constable of Flint Castle.
In 1689 Thomas Whitley of Peel Hall (age 38) was appointed joint Constable of Flint Castle for life.
In Mar 1750 Other Lewis Windsor 4th Earl Plymouth (age 18) was appointed Constable of Flint Castle.
In 1775 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (age 60) was appointed Constable of Flint Castle.
Constable of Gilgerran Castle
In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Gilgerran Castle.
Constable of Harlech Castle
In 1521 Francis Bryan (age 31) was appointed Constable of Harlech Castle which office he held until his death in 1550.
Constable of Haverfordwest Castle
In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Haverfordwest Castle.
Constable of Hawarden Castle
John Davies of Broadlane was appointed Constable of Hawarden Castle.
Constable of Hertford Castle
In 1518 Francis Bryan (age 28) was appointed Constable of Hertford Castle which office he held until 1534.
In 1554 John Mordaunt 2nd Baron Mordaunt (age 46) was appointed Constable of Hertford Castle.
Constable of Knaresborough Castle
In 1485 George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 25) was appointed Constable of Pontefract Castle and Constable of Knaresborough Castle.
Constable of Launceston Castle
In 1576 William Killigrew (age 21) was appointed Constable of Launceston Castle.
Constable of Leeds Castle
In 1312 Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere (age 36) was appointed Constable of Leeds Castle.
On 01 Mar 1378 John Devereux 1st Baron Devereux (age 41) was appointed Constable of Leeds Castle.
Before 11 Nov 1470 Ralph St Leger (age 40) was appointed Constable of Leeds Castle.
Constable of Norham Castle
In 1319 Thomas Grey (age 39) was appointed Constable of Norham Castle.
Constable of Norwich Castle
Calendars. 21 Jul 1461. Westminster Palace [Map]. The like to John Howard (age 36), king's knight, the office of the constableship and custody of Norwich Castle [Map] from Exeter lats, with the fees as in the times of Edward III and Richard II from the issues of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Thomas Burgh was appointed Constable of Norwich Castle.
Constable of Nottingham Castle
In Sep 1266 Roger Leybourne (age 51) was knighted and was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.
In 1343 John Darcy 1st Baron Darcy of Knayth (age 63) was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.
On 11 Mar 1489 Thomas Lovell was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.
In Oct 1612 Francis Manners 6th Earl of Rutland (age 34) was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle.
Constable of Pembroke Castle
In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Pembroke Castle.
Constable of Pevensey Castle
On 07 Dec 1393 John Pelham (age 38) was appointed Constable of Pevensey Castle for life.
In 1550 Robert Oxenbridge (age 42) was appointed Constable of Pevensey Castle.
Constable of Pontefract Castle
Before Jun 1396 John Savile of Shelley and Golcar (age 71) was appointed Constable of Pontefract Castle.
In 1399 Robert Waterton Constable (age 39) was appointed Constable of Pontefract Castle. In Jan 1400 he was given custody of King Richard II of England (age 31) who died shortly thereafter.
In 1485 George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 25) was appointed Constable of Pontefract Castle and Constable of Knaresborough Castle.
Constable of Queenborough Castle
In 1477 William Cheney (age 33) was appointed Constable of Queenborough Castle.
Letters of Horace Walpole. 07 Aug 1572. This morning we have been to Penshurst [Map] - but, oh! how fallen!341 The park seems to have never answered its character: at present it is forlorn; and instead of Sacharissa's342 cipher carved on the beeches, I should sooner have expected to have found the milkwoman's score. Over the gate is an inscription, purporting the manor to have been a boon from Edward VI to Sir William Sydney. The apartments are the grandest I have seen in any of these old palaces, but furnished in tawdry modern taste. There are loads of portraits; but most of them seem christened by chance, like children at a foundling hospital. There is a portrait of Languet343, the friend of Sir Philip Sydney (age 17); and divers of himself and all his great kindred; particularly his sister-in-law, with a vast lute, and Sacharissa, charmingly handsome, But there are really four very great curiosities, I believe as old portraits as any extant in England: they are, Fitzallen, Archbishop of Canterbury, Humphry Stafford, the first Duke of Buckingham; T. Wentworth, and John Foxle; all four with the dates of their commissions as constables of Queenborough Castle, from whence I suppose they were brought. The last is actually receiving his investiture from Edward the Third, and Wentworth is in the dress of Richard the Third's time. They are really not very ill done.344 There are six more, only heads; and we have found since we came home that Penshurst belonged for a time to that Duke of Buckingham. There are some good tombs in the church, and a very Vandal one. called Sir Stephen of Penchester. When we had seen Penshurst, we borrowed saddles, and, bestriding the horses of our postchaise, set out for Hever [Map]345, to visit a tomb of Sir Thomas Bullen, Earl of Wiltshire, partly with a view to talk of it in Anna Bullen's walk at Strawberry Hill. But the measure of our woes was not full, we could not find our way and were forced to return; and again lost ourselves in coming from Penshurst, having been directed to what they call a better road than the execrable one we had gone.
Note 341. Evelyn, who visited Penshurst exactly a century before Walpole, gives the Following brief notice of the place:-"July 9, 1652. We went to see Penshurst, the Earl of Leicester's, famous once for its gardens and excellent fruit, and for the noble conversation which Was wont to meet there, celebrated by that illustrious person Sir Philip Sidney, who there composed divers of his pieces. It stands in a park, is finely watered, and was now full of company, on the marriage of my old fellow-collegiate, Mr. Robert Smith, who marries Lady Dorothy Sidney, widow of the Earl of Sunderland."-E.
Note 342. Lady Dorothy Sidney, daughter of Philip, Earl of Leicester [Note. Mistake? She was a daughter of Richard, Earl of Liecester, she was a sister of Philip Earl of Leicester]; of whom Waller was the unsuccessful suitor, and to whom he addressed those elegant effusions of poetical gallantry, in which she is celebrated under the name of Sacharissa. Walpole here alludes to the lines written at Penshurst-
"Go, boy, and carve this passion on the bark
Of yonder tree, which stands the sacred mark
Of noble Sydney's birth; when such benign,
Such more than mortal-making stars did shine,
That there they cannot but for ever prove
The monument and pledge of humble love;
His humble love, whose hope shall ne'er rise higher,
Than for a pardon that he dares admire."-E.
Note 343. Hubert Tanguet, who quitted the service of the Elector of Saxony on account of his religion, and attached himself to the Prince of Orange. He died in 1581.-E.
Note 344. In Harris's History of Kent, he gives from Philpot a list of the constables of Queenborough Castle, p. 376; the last but one of whom, Sir Edward Hobby, is said to have collected all their portraits, of which number most probably were these ten.
Note 345. Hever Castle was built in the reign of Edward III, by William de Hevre, and subsequently became the property of the Boleyn family. In this castle Henry VIII passed the time of his courtship to the unfortunate Anne Boleyn; whose father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, was Created Earl of wiltshire and Ormond, 1529 and 1538.-E.
Constable of Raglan Castle
On 22 Jul 1509 Richard Herbert (age 67) was appointed Constable of Raglan Castle.
Constable of Rochester Castle
In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Rochester Castle.
In 1304 Henry Cobham 1st Baron Cobham (age 44) was appointed Constable of Rochester Castle.
John Cobham was appointed Constable of Rochester Castle.
Constable of Sandal Castle
Before 05 Jun 1511 Edward Stanhope (age 49) was appointed Constable of Sandal Castle.
Constable of Scarborough Castle
Calendars. 24 Jan 1308 King Edward II of England (age 23). Westminster Palace [Map]. To John Sampson (age 61), constable of the king's castle of Scardeburgh [Map]. Order to permit Henry Percy (age 34) and his consort and their household to dwell in the houses within the said castle, provided that the castle be safely guarded.
Constable of Southampton Castle
In 1361 Richard Pembridge (age 41) was appointed Constable of Southampton Castle.
Constable of Stafford Castle
by 1522 Edward Littleton (age 17) was appointed Gentleman Usher. Around the same time he was appointed Constable of Stafford Castle.
Constable of Tenby Castle
In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Tenby Castle.
Constable of Tonbridge Castle
In 1324 Henry Cobham 1st Baron Cobham (age 64) was appointed Constable of Tonbridge Castle.
Constable of Tutbury Castle
On 28 Mar 1484 Marmaduke Constable (age 27) was appointed Constable of Tutbury Castle.
Constable of Wallingford Castle
In 1216 Richard Fitzroy (age 26) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.
In 1375 Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford (age 37) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.
In 1434 William "Jackanapes" de la Pole 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 37) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.
Around 1465 John de la Pole 2nd Duke of Suffolk (age 22) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.
In 1482 Richard Grey (age 25) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.
In 1536 Francis Bryan (age 46) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.
Constable of Warwick Castle
After 1520 Richard Cecil (age 25) was appointed Groom of the Robes and Constable of Warwick Castle.
Constable of Wicklow Castle
In 1486 George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 26) was appointed Constable of Wicklow Castle and Chief Justice for the Duchy of Lancaster.
Constable of Winchester Castle
In 1247 Nicholas Moels (age 52) was appointed Constable of Winchester Castle.
Constable of Wressle Castle
In 1513 William Babthorpe (age 24) was appointed Constable of Wressle Castle.
