Berkeley Castle

Berkeley Castle In The Cotswold Town Of Berkeley.

Berkeley Castle historically sometimes spelt Berkley Castle or Barkley Castle is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK. The castle's origins date back to the 11th century and it has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.
The castle has remained within the Berkeley family since they reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors. It is traditionally believed to be the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327.
The first castle at Berkeley was a motte-and-bailey, built around 1067 by William FitzOsbern shortly after the Conquest. 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. The last Roger de Berkeley was dispossessed in 1152 for withholding his allegiance from the House of Plantagenet during the conflict of The Anarchy, and the feudal barony of Berkeley was then granted to Robert Fitzharding, a wealthy burgess of Bristol and supporter of the Plantagenets. He was the founder of the Berkeley family which still holds the castle.
In 1153–54, Fitzharding received a royal charter from King Henry II giving him permission to rebuild the castle. Fitzharding built the circular shell keep during 1153–56, probably on the site of the former motte. The building of the curtain wall followed, probably during 1160–90 by Robert and then by his son Maurice.
Much of the rest of the castle is 14th century and was built for Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley: Thorpe's Tower, to the north of the keep, the inner gatehouse to its southwest, and other buildings of the inner bailey.
The castle was ransacked in 1326 by the forces of Hugh Despenser, the favourite of Edward II. Then in 1327, Edward was deposed by his wife Queen Isabella and her ally Roger Mortimer, and placed in the joint custody of Mortimer’s son-in-law, Thomas de Berkeley, and de Berkeley‘s brother-in-law, John Maltravers. They brought Edward to Berkeley Castle, and held him there for five months from April to September. During that time a band of Edward's supporters attacked, entered the castle and rescued him, only for him to be recaptured soon afterwards. It is possible that his captors then moved him around between several castles to make further rescue more difficult, before returning him to Berkeley Castle in September. Some commentators have claimed that Edward's escape was actually successful, and that someone else was later murdered in his place.
The castle was used for many scenes for the first televised version of The Other Boleyn Girl. More recently the castle and grounds have been used for Galavant, Poldark, TheWhite Princess and The Spanish Princess.
The castle is featured on an episode in the 2017 season of the genealogy documentary television series Who Do You Think You Are?, with American actress Courteney Cox looking into her ancestry. Cox learns that she is a 21-generation direct descendant of Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley and 22-generation descendant of de Berkeley’s father-in-law, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March – also learning of their parts in the murder of King Edward II of England at Berkeley Castle in 1327.
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Berkeley Castle

Berkeley Castle has been lived in by the same family for over 900 years. It is where history has been made. Where Edward II was murdered, where the Barons of the West gathered before Magna Carta and where Queen Elizabeth I hunted and played bowls.

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Berkeley Castle - Bristol

The Berkeley family has inhabited Berkeley Castle, originally built as a Norman Fortress, since the late 12th century. A visit here will provide you with a rich insight into English history.

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Berkeley Castle(family home)
The first castle at Berkeley was a motte-and-bailey,built around 1067 by William FitzOsbern shortly after the Conquest.
Much of the rest of the castle is 14th century and was built for Thomas de Berkeley,3rd Baron Berkeley:Thorpe's Tower,to the north of the keep,the inner gatehouse to its southwest and other buildings of the inner bailey.
The oldest continuously-occupied castle in England after the royal residences.
The present castle has remained within the Berkeley family since they
reconstructed it in the 12th century.It is believed to be the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327.

St Briavels castle
Remains of medieval castle.Built by William Fitz Baderon around 1086,the first earth and wooden motte and bailey fortress was replaced by a 100 foot tall stone keep sometime in the late 12th century.
Throughout the medieval period,St Briavel's served as a royal administrative centre for the Forest of Dean.
Further extended and strengthened throughout the 13th century, the castle became a favourite hunting lodge of King John.The castle appears to have fallen from royal favour in the centuries that
followed and by 1775 was being used as a debtors'prison.
Transformed in the 20th century,it was turned into a Youth Hostel.


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Various pictures taken from the web of Berkeley Castle in England, where supposedly King Edward II met his untimely and gruesome death back in the 14th century.

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Day Out @ Berkeley Castle. Short clips of our day out with our grandsons at Berkeley Castle, I will do a separate video of the Butterfly House if any of it is in focus, I haven't looked yet.

Berkeley Castle is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK. The castle's origins date back to the 11th century and it has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.

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Berkeley Castle is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK .The castle's origins date back to the 11th century and it has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.The castle has remained within the Berkeley family since they reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors.It is traditionally believed to be the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327.

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Berkeley Castle Joust

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Visit to Berkeley Castle Gloucestershire, October 2015.

Berkeley Castle & the ghost of Edward II

Berkeley Castle (/ˈbɑːrkli/ BARK-lee; historically sometimes spelt Berkley Castle or Barkley Castle) is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK (grid reference ST685989). The castle's origins date back to the 11th century and it has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.[1]

The castle has remained within the Berkeley family since they reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors. It is traditionally believed to be the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327

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In Search of Saxons: at Berkeley Castle (Rhodri Davies)

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Dissertation film for my MA in Archaeology for Screen Media at the University of Bristol.

Written, Directed and Produced by Rhodri Davies

© 2010 University of Bristol.

This film follows the exploits of the University of Bristol on an excavation in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Since 2005, these archaeologists have been examining the traces of an early Anglo-Saxon religious community at Berkeley, one whose population was predominantly female, but is likely to have included a number of men.
The religious buildings used by this community may have been demolished or went out of use shortly before the Norman Conquest of 1066, their remains may have been encorporated into the later Norman castle that still stands today and which Berkeley is famous for, amongst other things.

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