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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 .
Nottingham: Nottingham Castle ISBN 0-905634-58-6 (Catalogue of exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum in 2002; contains an account of the life and works that includes many references.) Ingamells, John, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, Vol I, British, German, Italian, Spanish, Wallace Collection, 1985, ISBN 0-900785-16-0
William Peverel the Elder is the son of Randulph Peverel of his immediate family, only the name of a brother, Robert, is known. [1]The name Peverel is an Anglo-Norman variant form of the Old French surname Pevrel, Peuvrel diminutive form in -el of Pevrier, Peuvrier meaning "pepper or spice seller".
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The castle is soon after taken by Parliamentarians. [8] 1643 – Royalists of Newark attack and fail to capture Nottingham. 1644 – Royalists fail second attempt to capture Nottingham Castle but do however occupy the town itself. 1646 – Bubonic plague. 1650s – Smith's Bank established (approximate date).
Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore (1 June 1853 [1] – 2 April 1901 [2]) was a British artist from Nottingham who flourished from 1876 [3] until his death in 1901. He was initially a landscape artist, but became better known for his maritime scenes and views over the Thames.
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 ...