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Lewes Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England. ... Both mottes were built by William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. [2]
Lewes Castle, Warenne's ancestral home, built in 1069. Warenne was the son and heir of William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, and Maud Marshal.His mother was the daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and widow of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, making Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk his elder half-brother.
William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, Lord of Lewes, Seigneur de Varennes (died 1088), was a Norman nobleman created Earl of Surrey under William II Rufus. He is among the few known from documents to have fought under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
The keep at Pevensey Castle is nationally significant and is entirely different from most castles as enormous buttresses were built which extended 9 metres (30 ft) beyond the walls and were over 6 metres (20 ft) thick. [83] Lewes Castle is, with Lincoln Castle, one of only two castles in England with two mottes.
Lews Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Leòdhais) is a Victorian era castle located west of the town of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.It was built in the years 1844–51 as a country house for Sir James Matheson who had bought the whole island a few years previously with his fortune from the Chinese opium trade.
Castle Pulverbatch in Shropshire was built in the 11th or 12th century and abandoned by 1202. ... Lewes Castle, East Sussex; Leafield Castle, Oxfordshire;
Lewes Castle: Keep and bailey 12–14th century: Ruins Unusual in having two mottes [182] Pevensey Castle: Keep and bailey 12th century: Ruins Castle built within surviving walls of Roman fort of Saxon Shore. [183] Rye Castle (Ypres Tower) Tower House c. 1250: Intact Originally called Baddings Tower. [184]
The town is the location of several significant historic buildings, including Lewes Castle, the remains of Lewes Priory, Bull House (the former home of Thomas Paine), Southover Grange and public gardens, and a 16th-century timber-framed Wealden hall house known as Anne of Cleves House because it was given to her as part of her divorce ...