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1086
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Domesday Survey – no mention of a castle at Whittington
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1090-1100
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First motte-and-bailey castle possibly built around this time
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1138
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Castle fortified for Empress Matilda against StephenThis work may have included the rectangular tower keep on the motte
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1160-64
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Held by Henry II
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1164
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Granted to Geoffrey de Vere, Sheriff of Shropshire
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c1171
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Held by Roger de Powis
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by 1187
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Held by his son Morys de Powis
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1195
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Fulk II wins legal judgement for Whittington, but does not get the castle
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1195-1206
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Unspecified building work at the castle
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1200-03
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Fulk III in rebellion to press the same claim as his father
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1204
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Fulk III finally gained possession
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1215
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Fulk III joined Magna Carta rebels
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1221-22
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Authority given to the Earl of Chester to strengthen the castle
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1223
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Castle abandoned (March) before being taken by the Welsh under Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, then returned (July)
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1220s
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Stone buildings constructed – inner bailey and outer gatehouse. Earthworks and water defences probably also improved
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1233
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Welsh truce had broken down – the king sent Fulk 500 crossbow bolts
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c1239
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Fulk may have married Llywelyn’s daughter
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c1258
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Death of Fulk III
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1264
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Fulk IV drowned at Battle of Lewes, fighting the de Montfort rebels
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1264
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Simon de Montfort attempted to get the castle
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1265
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Llywelyn ap Gruffyd granted overlordship of Whittington
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1265
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Custody granted to Hamo le Strange as Fulk V was a minor
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1283
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First record of a manor court held at Whittington
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1295
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Fulk V becomes Lord Fitzwarine
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1290s
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End of Welsh wars – the March became peaceful for the first time in centuries
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1315
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Death of Fulk V
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1315-
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Fulk VI and Eleanor – they probably created the designed landscape, pleasure garden and refurbished the apartments
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1330
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Fulk VI accused of treachery and flees the country. Castle committed to a keeper and his sons imprisoned. He was cleared by November.
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1330
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First mention of ‘gardens, fruits, herbage’
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1336
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Death of Fulk VI
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1346
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Fulk VII fights at Battle of Crecy
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1349
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Death of Fulk VII during the Black Death, which affected Whittington badly
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1350-
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Wardship held by William Fitz Waryn
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1362
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Fulk VIII attained his majority
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1374
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Death of Fulk VIII, his son only 8
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1374-77
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Whittington held in wardship by Alice Perrers, Edward III’s mistress
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1378
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Castle ‘in great need of repair… There are two gardens worth 5s yearly…’
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1378
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Castle occupied by James de Audeley, lord of Heley (Staffs)
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1383
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Fulk IX gained Whittington
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1385
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Accounts record building work on walls and roofs
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1391
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Death of Fulk IX
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1392
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Inquisition for Fulk IX – castle ‘utterly in ruins’
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1392-93
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Wardship held by John Devereux of Maugne
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1393-94
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Wardship held by Thomas de Percy
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1394-
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Wardship held by Ivo Fitz Waryn
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1395
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Castle in poor repair
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1401-03
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Ivo hired carpenters and masons to repair the castle
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1400-
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Glyndwr rebellion affects Whittington area badly
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1407
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Fulk X dies, shortly after marrying and fathering a son. Whittington taken over by the king, but worth little due to the rebel damage
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1408
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Pardon granted for Whittington residents who supported Glyndwr
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1409
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Fulk’s widow Anne married again to Sir William de Clinton
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1413
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Anne’s dower assigned – she was given ‘The outer barbican in the castle in the north part of the same [illegible] barbican with houses in same gate as well above as below with new stable in same barbican [illegible] with garden ditched around with water lying in the north part of the castle there’
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1414
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Death of Ivo Fitz Waryn – Anne and William appear to have obtained wardship
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1420
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Death of Fulk XI aged only 14 - end of the direct male line. His sister Elizabeth inherits - she was 17 and already married to Richard Hankeford
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1426-27
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Elizabeth dies, leaving Richard as owner
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1431
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Richard Hankeford dies, leaving two daughters, Thomasia and Elizabeth
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1433
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Elizabeth dies leaving Thomasia as sole heir
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1437
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Thomasia marries William Bourghchier. The Fitzwarine peerage carries into the Bourghchier family
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1453
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Death of Thomasia
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1469
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Death of William Bourghchier . Their son, Fulk Bourghchier, Lord Fitzwarin becomes lord of Whittington
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1479
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Death of Fulk Bourghchier . His son John Bourchier aged only 9
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1491
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John Bourchier becomes lord
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1536
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Marcher lordships abolished - Whittington annexed to Shropshire
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1536
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John Bourchier created Earl of Bath
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1536-39
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John Leland reports ‘a village in a valley conteining a hunderith houses, and hath a dichid round castelle not very large in the midle of the village’
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1539
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Death of John Bourchier. Succeeded by his son, also John, the second Earl
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1545
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Whittington sold to the Crown - Detailed survey of the lordship produced
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1545-49
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Manor leased to Anthony Strelley, knt.
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1552
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Henry Duke of Suffolk and Thomas Dupont receive grant for the lordship
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Whittington granted by Queen Mary to Henry Earl of Arundel and his heirs
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1562
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The earl, with son-in-law and daughter John Lord Lumley and Lady Jane mortgaged the castle and lordship to Richard Lambert (a grocer), Richard Carell (a mercer), Roger Pipe (a leather-seller), John Isham (a mercer) and William Albany (a merchant tailor), all citizens of London
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William Albany later acquired the property as his sole right
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1590
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Death of William Albany, succeeded by his son Francis Albany
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1598
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Death of Francis Albany, succeeded by his son, also Francis
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1623
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Francis Albany grants first permission to remove stone from the castle
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1632
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Francis Albany let to Edward Prichard of Bergill (yeoman) ‘the buildings called the Castle Gatehouse and Court House, and garden or court within the walls of the Mayne Castle in Whittington’ at a rent of 2s. annually. The tenant was to repair the premises being allowed ‘sufficient mayne timber … and freestone out of the castle’ for the purpose.
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1636
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Death of the younger Francis, succeeded by his daughter Sarah Albany. Much of the estate in the hands of creditors
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1639
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Sarah marries Thomas Lloyd of Aston
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1638
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Prichard leased the same castle property to George Williams of Shrewsbury, mercer
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1644
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Civil war skirmish near Whittington - No record of garrison or defence at the castle
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1673
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Castle let to Thomas Lloyd of London merchant, who undertook repairs
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c1760
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The eastern tower of the inner bailey fell into the moat after a severe frost
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1776
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The inner bailey was largely dismantled to lay turnpike roads. The ‘lock up’ created, by re-using a doorway from the inner bailey
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1778
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Earliest plan of Whittington by Mr Hale
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1794
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Joseph Turner sketches the outer gatehouse
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1802
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A new stable with a thatched roof built
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1808
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Castle leased by William Lloyd to farmer Thomas Broughall
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1809
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William Lloyd restores the outer gatehouse. Well discovered at the inner bailey and cleared
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1836
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Last record of manor court held at Whittington
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1839
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Tithe survey of Whittington
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1841
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Major fire destroys the farm buildings
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1874
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First OS map of Whittington
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1970
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Inner bailey excavated
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1998
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WCPT formed
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