Castle Gate in Leicester is currently on the market for £800,000. Renovated inside to form a spacious house, Castle Gate was built in the 15th century and was the main entrance to the bailey of Leicester Castle. The Great Hall of the castle still exists and is a few hundred yards away. It is encased in a much more modern-looking building but is in good repair with most of the original Hall still surviving. The castle’s earthen motte still survived, though without stonework, and is in a walled garden next to the Hall. Richard III came to the castle several times in 1483, though 1485 is less certain; however, the idea that he lodged at the Blue Boar Inn is mostly discredited. Castle Gate is also right next to the church of St Mary de Castro. Richard certainly would have visited in on his stays, and it was where his father, Richard, Duke of York, was knighted as a youth, alongside the child-king Henry VI, during the infamous ‘Parliament of Bats.’ (No, not winged creatures…but bludgeons. No one was allowed to bring swords/daggers into the council…so they brought clubs instead!)
The lane running from Castle Gate, follows the line of the churchyard down the hill to reach another older medieval gate which is stone rather than timber as more ruinous. This is Turret Gateway and was an entrance/exit to the Newarke (New Work), a foundation which contained Trinity Hospital and the church of The Annunciation of Our Lady in the Newarke, which held some famous Lancastrian burials. Founded by Henry of Grosmont, 1st Earl of Lancaster, it held the tombs of Grosmont, his father, Mary de Bohun, and Blanche of Castile. The church also held a famous relic–a thorn from the Crown of Thorns.
The Church of the Annunciation was also where Richard’s body was displayed after his defeat at Bosworth. Only two arches remain today in the nearby university building and can be visited at times. The small lane from Castle Gate to the Newarke is almost certainly the route by which Richard’s body would have been brought from the battlefield, the company entering Leicester over Bow Bridge then passing up past St Mary’s and the castle and down to the Church of the Annunciation.
https://www.storyofleicester.info/civic-affairs/leicester-castle/
The Story of Leicester gives a more in-depth history of the castle and contains a nice piece of artwork showing Richard visiting the Great Hall.
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The site of the tombs of the House of York at Fotheringhay were destroyed during the Suppressions but Elizabeth I had splendid tombs of her Yorkist ancestors created. It is a shame that she did not do the same for her Lancastrian ones that were present in the Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady in the Newarke. (In the list above these were all good Lancastrians).
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Well how about Constanza of Castile instead of a ” Blanche”. Blanche of Lancaster was the first wife of John of Gaunt and was buried in Old St Pauls Cathedral in London together with John if Gaunt. Constanza of Castile was Gaunts second wife and she is buried in Leicester.
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