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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.
Master James statue at Beaumaris Castle. Master James of Saint George (c. 1230 –1309; French: Maître Jacques de Saint-Georges, Old French: Mestre Jaks, Latin: Magister Jacobus de Sancto Georgio) was a master of works/architect from Savoy, described by historian Marc Morris as "one of the greatest architects of the European Middle Ages". [1]
Bacon's Castle, 1665, Surry County — only Jacobean great houses in the U.S., used as a stronghold in Bacon's Rebellion [1] Ball-Sellers House (Arlington, Virginia) built in 1742 by John Ball, owned by the Arlington Historical Society. [2]
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 ...
Belmead was built by Philip St. George Cocke in 1835. Cocke was the son of John Hartwell Cocke of Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County, Virginia. He was a graduate of both the University of Virginia and the United States Military Academy and had served for a year in the US Army as a second lieutenant. He resigned in 1834 and consequently devoted his ...
Bulkeley was the eldest son of Sir Richard Bulkeley, of Beaumaris and Anglesey by his first wife, Margaret (née Savage). He was appointed Constable of Beaumaris Castle in 1561 and elected the first Mayor of Beaumaris in 1562. [1] In 1563, he was elected Member of Parliament for Anglesey, a position he obtained through the influence of his father.
Beaumaris in 1610 Beaumaris from the sea in the 1840s. Beaumaris was originally a Viking settlement known as Porth y Wygyr ("Port of the Vikings"), [3] but the town itself began its development in 1295 when Edward I of England, having conquered Wales, commissioned the building of Beaumaris Castle as part of a chain of fortifications around the North Wales coast (others include Conwy ...
Beaumaris Castle on Anglesey in Wales. c.1290–97 – Merton College Chapel (choir) in Oxford built; 1290 – Orvieto Cathedral, Umbria by Arnolfo di Cambio begun [1] 1292 – Great Coxwell Barn in England built [2] 1293 – Hôpital de Notre-Dame de Fontenilles, Tonnerre, Burgundy, begun