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Mold Castle (Welsh: Castell yr Wyddgrug), also known as Bailey Hill in the town of Mold, Flintshire, north-east Wales, is a motte-and-bailey castle erected around 1072, probably by the Norman Robert de Montalt under instructions from Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester. Little remains except the mound on which the motte was built.
Under Welsh rule, Mold Castle was deemed to be a "royal stronghold". It was recaptured by the forces of Edward I during the first months of the war of 1276–77. Mold Castle was still a substantial fortification at the outbreak of the rebellion by Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294. However, with the death of the last Lord Montalt in 1329, the castle's ...
Mold gold cape, British Museum. The cape is 458 mm (18.0 in) wide. It was designed to fit someone of a very slight build, perhaps a teenager, and although the sex of the person buried in this grave remains unclear, the associated finds are likely, by comparison with similar contemporary graves discovered, to be those accompanying the burial of a woman. [9]
Pages in category "Mold, Flintshire" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... Mold Castle; Mold Community Hospital; Mold gold cape; Mold Law ...
Plas Teg circa 1778 Plas Teg circa 1860 when it was owned by Colonel Trevor Roper Plas Teg (2005). The house was built by Sir John Trevor I, a prominent courtier of King James I, in about 1610. [4]
Castel del Monte (Italian for "Castle of the Mountain"; Barese: Castìdde du Monte) is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated on a hill in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was built during the 1240s by King Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily. In the 18th century, the castle's ...
This freed Dafydd's hands, and he entered into an alliance with other Welsh princes to attack English possessions in Wales. He enjoyed several successes in the north: by March 1245 he had recovered the castle of Mold along with his former possessions in modern-day Flintshire, and it is possible that the castle of Dyserth also fell to his men in the summer.
Moel Famau (listen) ⓘ is the highest hill in the Clwydian Range and the highest point of the county of Flintshire in Wales (both the historic county and the current council area).