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Monmouth Castle (Welsh: Castell Trefynwy) is a castle close to the centre of the town of Monmouth, the county town of Monmouthshire, on a hill above the River Monnow in south-east Wales. Once an important border castle, and birthplace of Henry V of England , it stood until the English Civil War when it was damaged and changed hands three times before being slighted to prevent it being ...
During the Civil War, the castle was held for King Charles, and changed hands more than once. On 1st March 1647 Parliament issued an instruction that the castle be slighted, and this involved the demolition of the round tower-keep as well as much of the walling and gatehouse.
In the tumult of the Civil War, Monmouth Castle changed hands three times, finally falling to the Parliamentarians in 1645. When Oliver Cromwell visited in 1646 he ordered it to be slighted to prevent its military re-use. [12]
Monmouth Castle was built between 1067 and 1071 by William Fitz Osbern, close consellor of William the Conqueror, as part of the Norman campaign to control Wales and the Marches. The earliest castle would have been of earth and timber construction, later fortified in stone. The only surviving elements of the medieval castle are the ruins of the ...
The end came for the castle in the Civil War, when it changed hands three times and was eventually slighted by the Parliamentarians. A local man's diary for 1647 records that on 30 March the townsmen and soldiers began pulling down the great round tower, which stood where Great Castle House now stands, and that on 22 December 'about 12 o'clock, the Tower in the castle of Monmouth fell down ...
Monmouth Castle. / 51.8125; -2.7167. Once an important border castle, and birthplace of Henry V of England, it stood until the English Civil War when it was damaged and changed hands three times before being slighted to prevent it being fortified again. After partial collapse in 1647, the site was reused and built over by Great Castle House ...
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Monmouth Castle resides on a bluff overlooking a vital crossing of the Rivers Monnow and Wye in Monmouthshire, Wales. The original earth and timber ringwork castle was built between 1067 and 1069 by William FitzOsbern, Earl of Hereford. FitzOsbern fought alongside William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and served as one of his ...
