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Beaumaris Castle was a strategic location in the war, as it controlled part of the route between the king's bases in Ireland and his operations in England. [24] Thomas Bulkeley, whose family had been involved in the management of the castle for several centuries, held Beaumaris for the king and may have spent around £3,000 improving its defences.
William Davies (died 27 July 1593) was an outlawed Welsh Roman Catholic missionary who worked as an underground schoolmaster in the Creuddyn Peninsula of North Wales.Davies was martyred at Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey during the Elizabethan era, as part of the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Wales that began under Henry VIII and ended only with Catholic Emancipation in 1829.
Sir Roland de Velville (1471/74 – 25 June 1535) [1] was a Breton-born English soldier and government official who is theorised as the illegitimate son of King Henry VII of England by "a Breton lady whose name is not known", [2] or as a favoured member of the court of Henry VII and later recipient of beneficences, brought home to England with 28-year-old Henry after his exile in Brittany, an ...
Windsor Castle is almost as famous as its inhabitants, including the late Queen Elizabeth II. This stunning estate is the world's longest-occupied palace in the world, housing 40 British monarchs ...
This category only includes Royalty who were actually born in Windsor or were resident outside the Castle. See also Category:British royalty and its sub-categories for other Windsor Royal residents. Subcategories
Beaumaris Castle was built at around sea-level and was constructed from local Anglesey stone. [113] The castle design formed an inner and an outer ward, surrounded in turn by a moat, now partially filled. [114] The main entrance to the castle was the "Gate next the Sea", next to the castle's tidal dock that allowed it to be supplied directly by ...
A concentric castle is a castle with two or more concentric curtain walls, such that the outer wall is lower than the inner and can be defended from it. [1] The layout was square (at Belvoir and Beaumaris ) where the terrain permitted, or an irregular polygon (at Krak and Margat ) where curtain walls of a spur castle followed the contours of a ...
Windsor Castle holds the distinct title of being both the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world. Located in Windsor, England, it was built in the 11th century and has been home to 39 ...