Gatehouses

Sir John Wenlock’s Castle of Someries

Sep 19, 2023

battles, buildings, travel

Edmund Duke of Somerset, Gatehouses, Luton, Luton Airport, Richard of Warwick, ruins, Sir John Wenlock, Someries Castle, Tewkesbury, treachery, Wars of the Roses

Sir John Wenlock was a known side-swapper during the Wars of the Roses. Although not as infamous as Thomas Stanley, Wenlock also frequently changed allegiances, starting out as a Lancastrian, then becoming a Yorkist, then a Warwick supporter and then back to being a Lancastrian again. He fought for the House of Lancaster at…
Holiday in Morpeth Castle’s wonderful gatehouse….!

Sep 9, 2018

anniversaries, battles, buildings

Dartington Hall, Flodden, Gatehouses, Henry VIII, James IV, Margaret “Tudor”, Morpeth Castle, Northumberland, Royal widows, Scottish border

I love to stay at places with history. Especially medieval history. That is why I so love going to 14th-century Dartington Hall near Totnes in Devon. Now I have found somewhere else I’d like to go, although it’s in the opposite end of the country – Morpeth Castle in Northumberland. Well, the castle gatehouse, to…
A well-connected Archdeacon?

May 8, 2017

anniversaries, buildings, religion, travel

Archdeacons, Barrington Hall, Barringtons, Blythburgh, Cecily Duchess of York, Gatehouses, genealogy, Hatfield Broadoak, Ipswich, Sir Thomas Barrington, Staffords, Suffolk, Thomas Bourchier, William Pykenham, wills, Winifred Pole

As we said last year, late mediaeval prelates were often well-connected. Indeed, as this ODNB article shows, William Pykenham, Archdeacon of Suffolk, died some time in spring 1497, approximately sixty years after his father. His mother was Katherine Barrington, of the prominent Hatfield Broadoak family, which explains some of his appointments through her Bourchier and Stafford…

Gatehouses

Sir John Wenlock’s Castle of Someries

Holiday in Morpeth Castle’s wonderful gatehouse….!

A well-connected Archdeacon?