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Marlborough Castle, locally known and recorded in historical documents as The Mound, [1] was an 11th-century royal castle located in the civil parish of Marlborough, a market town in the English county of Wiltshire, on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath (grid reference).
After being advised of the locations of Meisdorf House and Marburg Castle, he escorted intelligence officers to the sites where a number of additional items were discovered. [3] During this time, American troops arrested a German soldier named Karl von Loesch, an assistant to Hitler's personal translator Paul-Otto Schmidt , as he was retreating ...
The original purpose of Marlborough Mound is unknown as it dates from circa 2400BC, the Neolithic period, prehistoric times. A local legend was that the mound was the site of Merlin's burial, given the motto of the town of Marlborough 'ubi nunc sapientis ossa Merlini' (where now are the bones of the wise Merlin). [6]
Blenheim Palace (/ ˈ b l ɛ n ɪ m / BLEN-im [1]) is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough.Originally called Blenheim Castle, it has been known as Blenheim Palace since the 19th century. [2]
William also established a mint in Marlborough, which coined the William I and the early William II silver pennies. The coins display the name of the town as Maerlebi or Maerleber. Marlborough Town Hall. He also established the neighbouring Savernake Forest as a favourite royal hunting ground [11] and Marlborough castle became a Royal residence.
Edmund Fitzalan was born in the Castle of Marlborough, in Wiltshire, on 1 May 1285.He was the son of Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel (1267–1302), and his wife, Alice of Saluzzo, daughter of Thomas, marquess of Saluzzo in Italy. [3]
In its original form Marlborough House had just two storeys. This illustration of c.1750 shows the garden front. In 1708, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough was granted a 50-year lease of the site from the Crown Estate at a low rent from Queen Anne, which beforehand had been partly occupied by the pheasantry adjoining St. James's Palace, and partly by the gardens of Henry Boyle, Queen ...
Parliaments were held at Marlborough in 1267 and at Salisbury in 1328 and 1384. [1] During the wars of Stephen's reign, Salisbury, Devizes and Malmesbury were garrisoned by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, for the Empress, but in 1138 Stephen seized the bishop and captured Devizes Castle. In 1216, Marlborough Castle was surrendered to Louis by Hugh ...