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The first castle at Berkeley was a motte-and-bailey, built around 1067 by William FitzOsbern shortly after the Conquest. [11] This was subsequently held by three generations of the first Berkeley family, all called Roger de Berkeley, and rebuilt by them in the first half of the 12th century. [12]
The castle-like house was built for Colonel Samuel Taylor Suit of Washington, D.C. as a personal retreat near the spa town, beginning in 1885. It was not complete by the time of his death in 1888 and was finished in the early 1890s for his young widow, Rosa Pelham Suit, whom Suit had first met at Berkeley Springs, and their three children. [2]
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The first castle at Berkeley was built by William FitzOsbern. [16] The castle was held for the Empress Matilda during the Anarchy, and was destroyed during the conflict. [ 16 ] Rebuilt in 1153, the new castle included a shell keep and stone curtain wall . [ 16 ]
In 1153–54 Fitzharding received a royal charter from Henry II giving him permission to rebuild the castle at Berkeley. [4] The previous castle was originally a motte-and-bailey built by William FitzOsbern shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066, and had been rebuilt in the 12th century by the dispossessed Roger de Berkeley and his father ...
He built a house on the site of Bruton Priory, ... Castle and Manor of Berkeley from 1066 to 1618, ed. Sir John Maclean, 3 vols., Gloucester, 1883-1885 ...
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The Collins Scottish Clan Encyclopedia agrees that the Barclays came over from France during the Norman conquest and that they settled in Gloucestershire, England where, as the Earls of Berkeley, they built Berkeley Castle in 1153. [4] Some of the family moved north to Scotland where they settled in Aberdeenshire and Fife. [4]