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Nottingham Castle is a Stuart Restoration-era ducal mansion in Nottingham, England, built on the site of a Norman castle built starting in 1068, and added to extensively through the medieval period, when it was an important royal fortress and occasional royal residence.
Sir William Neville (c. 1341 – 19 October 1391) was an English Lollard knight, [1] and constable of Nottingham Castle. He was a crusader with his Lollard brother (and possible lover) [2] John Clanvowe, with whom he was buried inside the Arap Mosque in Istanbul.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... A statue of Robin Hood is installed at Nottingham Castle, in Nottingham, England. [2] [3] ...
The windows are sashes with moulded surrounds, those in the ground floor with cornices, and in the upper floor with bracketed sills. In the centre is a projecting double porch with a cornice and a parapet, doorways with pilasters, and round-arched windows in the returns. To its right is a two-storey round-cornered bay window.
Segrave was kept in Scotland until the end of 1314, when he was released in exchange for some Scottish prisoners and on payment of a large ransom; his son Stephen arranged the conditions of the exchange. He still held his keepership and the custody of Nottingham Castle, to which Derby Castle was now added. On 14 July 1316 he received a grant of ...
The barons who had rebelled against Henry III and taken possession of Nottingham Castle under Simon de Monfort were expelled from it. 1271 – Nottingham Whitefriars Carmelite Monastery is established by Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton on the site of what is now The Bell Inn, Nottingham. 1284 Nottingham Goose Fair begins. [2]
Nottingham (/ ˈ n ɒ t ɪ ŋ ə m / ⓘ NOT-ing-əm, locally / ˈ n ɒ t n ʊ m /) is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.It is located 33 miles (53 km) south-east of Sheffield and 45 miles (72 km) north-east of Birmingham.
The Park Estate was formerly a private hunting park for the Duke of Newcastle who was also the owner of the adjacent Nottingham Castle.The Fifth Duke of Newcastle retained architect Thomas Chambers (T.C.) Hine (1813–1899) to design and build the Park Tunnel (primarily as the main entrance to the Park) and to develop the Park as a residential area in central Nottingham for the wealthier ...