If you fancy staying in a Tudor castle, then Thornbury Castle in Gloucestershire is the place for you. It’s a beautiful castle that is now presented very much in the Tudor style.
“….It was built in 1510 by Edward Stafford, the Duke of Buckingham, who had been given permission by the young King Henry VIII to replace the existing Gloucestershire manor house with a fortified castle home that sits in a position a few miles north of Bristol, in an elevated position overlooking the River Severn estuary….”
Edward’s father, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, is loathed by all Ricardians for turning upon and rebelling against Richard III. Luckily the treacherous duke lost his head completely. And a good job too.
After Richard’s death at Bosworth, Thornbury was given to Jasper Tudor. Not that it was a castle then, because it was still a manor house. When Jasper turned up his toes, Thornbury eventually went back to the Staffords, and it was Edward Stafford, the 3rd Duke of Buckingham who in 1510 received a licence to crenellate the house.
Well, he certainly did that by rebuilding “….the manor house as ‘an impressively towered castle’ with ‘huge oriel windows in the living-quarters in the inner court….” In fact he went too far and its magnificence annoyed Henry VIII, who promptly took it from him. Oh well, it didn’t do to be posher than a Tudor!
Anyway, if you are of a mind to visit Thornbury Castle, read this article to get a flavour of what to expect. It does indeed look wonderful. One wonders what the original medieval manor house was like. Hardly a hovel, I imagine.
Oh, and if you’re interested in ghosts, perhaps you should follow this link.
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Have stayed in the Duke’s Bedchamber (H&A’s billet) a couple of times. It’s a beautiful castle but so expensive to stay there now. Didn’t see/hear any ghosts.
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Jasper also got the Wydeville widow of Henry, 2nd duke of Buckingham, half the age of dear uncle. In fact, Henry had his beloved uncle married off to Katherine months before his own erstwhile marriage to the widow’s niece, Elizabeth of York. I refer to this sort of political marriage as marital custody. Probably no more than in her mid-20’s Henry (and his mother) were in no mood for the dowager duchess of Buckingham to remarry and beget a host of rival (royal) sons to challenge his fragile grip on the throne. The 2nd duke’s own heirs (Edward, featured here) were removed from Katherine Wydeville’s custody and raised by Henry’s mother, Margaret Beaufort.
The eradication of all claimants to his throne began before the dust settled at Bosworth, even before the Sweat cleared out of London.
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