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TAMWORTH castle :- Staffordshire.TAMWORTH castle, is situated in Tamworth, Staffordshire. It sits next to the River TAME and the River Anker.
Tamworth Castle is a typical Norman motte and bailey castle set in the south-west corner of what was a Saxon burh, located in order to dominate the approach over two rivers from the south. Its sandstone walls and superb herringbone wall - all that survives of the ‘curtain wall’ of the bailey - are believed to date from the 1180s. They replaced a pallisade and wooden tower, built on the present artificial motte or mound shortly after the Norman Conquest.
Numerous additions and alterations have been made to the castle by succeeding generations of owners. The oldest-surviving section within the shell-keep, apart from the tower itself, is the north wing with its thirteenth-century arched doorway. The Banqueting Hall was added in the early fifteenth century, and the Warder’s Lodge at the entrance to the courtyard (upper bailey) is Tudor.
The Castle is known for two ghosts “The Black Lady” and
“The White Lady”. The first is said to be the ghost of a nun called Editha who founded her order in the 9th century, her nuns were said to have been expelled from a nearby Convent. They were expelled by Robert de Marmion when he took possession of lands and the castle given to him by William I. The angry prayers of the nuns were said to have called Editha from her grave.
She severely attacked de Marmion in his bedroom thus forcing him to restore the Convent. She still walks the castle and has been seen on the staircase and in the bedroom.
The White Lady appears on the terrace around the castle and is said to have stood there and watched her lover, a wicked knight called Tarquin be killed by Sir Lancelot.
The castle is reputedly home to many spirits. The most famed ghosts are known to be the Black Lady and White Lady. The White Lady is said to have been captured and locked in the Tower by the wicked Sir Tarquin. But after a while she fell in love with him and is said to walk the battlements around the castle, weeping over her lover who was slain by Sir Lancelot du Lac, who came to rescue her. Legend has it that the White Lady’s ghost can still be seen walking the Battlements and her cries can be heard on the wind….
The Black Lady is allegedly the ghost of a nun called Editha who founded her order in the 9th century; her nuns were said to have been expelled from a nearby Convent by Robert de Marmion. The angry prayers of the nuns were said to have called Editha from her grave. One night in 1139 after a lavish banquet, Marmion was attacked by the ghost of Editha, who prophesied that unless the nuns were restored to Polesworth, the Baron would meet an untimely death. Just before she vanished the spectre hit the Baron on the side with the point of her crosier; the wound was so terrible that Marmion’s cries awoke the whole Castle. His pain only ceased when this vow was taken and the nuns returned
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Tamworth castleTamworth is a traditional motte and bailey castle. It is thought to date from the 1180's. Numerous alterations and additions have been added to the castle over the years by the different owners. It is unsure who was the first Lord of the castle, evidence shows it was both Robert de Despencer and Robert Marmion. It continued in this family until the last Baron died. In 1423 the castle was passed to Sir Thomas Ferrers, then by marriage to the Shirleys of Chartley in 1688, in 1715 the Earls of Northampton and to the Townshends of Raynham in 1751. The Tamworth Corporation then brought the castle in 1897 for the sum of £3000 and was opened to the public in 1899.
The castle was threatened twice with destruction the first in 1215 when when King John sent in forces in revenge with Sir Robert Marmion having sided against him and again during the cicil war it was held by Royalists, Cromwell ordered the destruction of the castle but the threat was not carried out.
There are said to be many ghosts that haunt the castle, the most popular are the White Lady who was captured and locked in The Tower by Sir Tarquin. She ended up falling in love with Tarquin and now wanders around looking for her love who was slain by Sir Lancelot du Luc who come to rescue her, and the Black Lady who is thought to be Editha the nun whose order of nuns were removed from the nearby convent by Robert de Marmion.
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