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Persoonlijke gegevens Thurstan MONTFORT 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1184 in Beaudesert Castle, Staffordshire..
• Hij is overleden op 21 november 1216 in Wellesbourne Montfort, Warwickshire, hij was toen 32 jaar oud.

  Let op: Was 9 maanden voor de geboorte (??-??-1220) van kind (Pieres / Peter MONTFORT) al overleden (21 november 1216).

  Age:26-27

• Een kind van Henry (Lord of Beldesert Castle) MONTFORT en Emma Rose CORBUCEO (MONTFORT)
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 29 april 2016.

Gezin van Thurstan MONTFORT

Hij is getrouwd met Mabel (Lady) MONTFORT (MONTFORT).

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Pieres / Peter MONTFORT  1220-1265 

Notities over Thurstan MONTFORT

View Tree for Thurstan de MontfortThurstan de Montfort (b. 1190, d. 1217)

Thurstan de Montfort (son of Henry de Montfort and Emma Corbuceo) was born 1190 in Beaudesert Castle, Warwickshire, England, and died 1217 in Wellesbourne Montfort, Warwickshire, England. He married Lady de Montfort.

Includes NotesNotes for Thurstan de Montfort:

A single stone stands on a hill at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. It's the only remnant of what was once the huge medieval castle, Beaudesert. The earthworks of Beaudesert Castle, albeit quite clear ones, are all that remain of this former Norman Motte and Bailey castle in Henley-in-Arden, not far from Stratford in Warwickshire.

Henry de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, gave the land to his great-nephew, Thurstan de Montfort, who built a castle on the lands that he called Beaudesert, or beautiful wasteland, presumably in reference to what must have been the very depths of the dark and sinister Forest of Arden. A charter for a market alongside the castle was obtained from the Empress Maud in 1140.

It was probably his grandson Peter who walled the inner bailey in stone. In April 1262, when he began to take sides with the Barons, the King gave orders to prevent the fortification of the castle. Peter was killed in 1265, and the town of Henley was burnt, probably as retribution for its Lord's stand against the King. It is said that the castle was also partly destroyed, but if so it was soon rebuilt, and Peter's son was restored to his inheritance. When that Peter's grandson Peter died in 1369, the castle reverted to Thomas, Earl of Warwick, which is probably when it began to decline: after all, with the massive and more important Warwick Castle, the Earls were unlikely to pay much attention to a small, and probably half-wooden keep.

Lord Bergavenny held the castle from 1376 to 1410 followed by the Boteillers of Sudeley until it was sold to Edward IV in 1477. Whether or not it was retained by the Earls of Warwick and these nobles held it on reversion is not known, but it seems likely that they were only tenants.

The last mention of work on the castle was in 1411: a minor repair to the porch of the hall, which would have been a large, high-roofed building somewhere in the inner bailey or keep. This iswhere the whole garrison would have lived and eaten, and where all except the Lord's family would have slept. The castle is not mentioned in a survey of 1547, so it seems likely that it had fallen into ruin by then. In any case, all the stonework had definitely gone by the time of the famous local historian Dugdale (1656), although he seems to imply that there was some still lying around: not onestone by then remained on another, and even the trenches were filled.

The basic layout of Beaudesert castle can still be discerned, even though--before a recent archaeological dig--only that single stone could be seen above ground. In particular, the classic motte-and-bailey structure of medieval castles is clearly visible from the air. Determining the position of any buildings within this overall structure is not so easy, however. The first order of the day, then, is for geophysics to survey the highest point on the hill – the most likely site for the main castle buildings.

In a recent archaeological dig, Trench One was opened over some masonry that has been revealed by erosion caused by walkers following a popular local footpath and the main defensive wall of the castle, the curtain, was uncovered, along with the foundations of an ancillary building.

Built in the earliest days after the Norman conquest, and possibly on the site of an Ancient British fort, the original castle would, like most of the early Motte and Baileys, have been made mainly of wood, being gradually converted to stone as time went by, starting with theall-important defensive curtain wall.

The castle is in a superb, commanding position over the surrounding countryside, and was built on a natural ridge: perfect for the task that it was built for. The photographs below show superbly how the ridges, furrows, earthworks and moats still survive: but you have to look for them. There is only a single stone left there now, but there was surface evidence of the castle still in place as late as the mid 19th Century, when some wooden water pipes from the deep well's conduit system were removed and left lying around, apparently because the ground was subsiding and cattle were breaking their legs! At about this time, the moulded capital of a doorway shaft from the 13th or 14th century was dug up on the castle's site.

The castle's design was of the simple Norman Motte and Bailey type which was so quick, simple and effective. The natural ridge that the castle is on was perfect from a defensive viewpoint, giving an excellent view over the countryside and a steep climb for attackers. Indeed, it is possible that it was the site of an Ancient British hill fort: it is close to an ancient track along thetop of the ridge that would have been used to keep away from the dangerous, wooden valleys. It may also have been a Saxon earth fort: this may help to explain why the Normans chose the site.

The surviving earthworks are unquestionably from this later period. The castle was - and is - surrounded by a deep moat, which surrounded the whole structure, and with separate ditches around the keep and inner bailey. However, as with many early castles, the moats here would have been dry: essentially just ditches. In any case, it would have been difficult to keep water in so high above the water level and with no stream to fill the moat. Around these ditches would have been wooden pallisades to protect the baileys and keep.

Today, Beaudesert is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England, half a mile north of Henley-in-Arden. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 919.

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