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Marlborough Castle, locally known and recorded in historical documents as The Mound, [1] was an 11th-century royal castle located in the civil parish of Marlborough, a market town in the English county of Wiltshire, on the Old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).
Marlborough (/ ˈ m ɔː l b ər ə / ⓘ MAWL-bər-ə, [2] / ˈ m ɑːr l-/ MARL-) [3] is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath.
Marlborough Mound is a Neolithic monument in the town of Marlborough in the English county of Wiltshire. Standing 19 metres (60 ft) tall, it is second only to the nearby Silbury Hill in terms of height for such a monument.
Castles in Wiltshire, England. ... Pages in category "Castles in Wiltshire" ... Marlborough Castle; O. Old Sarum Castle; S.
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 ...
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 1140 the castle of Marlborough was also threatened by Robert fitzHubert, who had captured Devizes castle, but John tricked him into imprisonment and sold him to earl William of Gloucester. On the same year, king Stephen tried to appoint a breton governor in Wiltshire, causing the disfavour of both John and the Salisburys.
Being childless and faced with the dukedom passing by law to his first cousin once removed and heir male the 5th Duke, who was seated at Marlborough Castle in Wiltshire, he bequeathed the unentailed Seymour estates to his niece Elizabeth Seymour, [citation needed] the wife of Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury (1656–1741), and thus the ...