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 1184 - 1274 (90 years)
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| Name |
Corbet, Thomas |
| Suffix |
Sheriff of Shropshire |
| Born |
1184 |
Caus Castle,Westbury,Shropshire,England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Sep 1274 |
Shrewsbury,Shropshire,England |
| Person ID |
I5648 |
Wilkinson |
| Last Modified |
31 Jan 2016 |
| Family |
de Valletort, Isabel, b. 1191, Caus Castle,Westbury,Shropshire,England |
| Children |
| | 1. Corbet, Emma, b. 1226, Westbury,Shropshire,England , d. 1284, Brampton,Herefordshire,England (Age 58 years) |
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| Family ID |
F2330 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caus_Castle}
Caus Castle is a hill fort and medieval castle in the civil parish of Westbury in the English county of Shropshire. It is situated up on the eastern foothills of the Long Mountain guarding the route from Shrewsbury, Shropshire to Montgomery, Powys on the border between England and Wales.
The early outer earthworks of the site are probably an Iron Age hillfort, while the later motte-and-bailey is of Norman construction.
Roger le Corbet (or Fitz Corbet) was granted several manors in Shropshire in 1069 by William the Conqueror as the Barony of Caus for his role in the Norman conquest and invasion of England. They were named after his Normandy estate in the Pays de Caux, in France. The Corbets owed fealty to Roger de Montgomery, the first Earl of Shrewsbury to help control Welsh Marches with absolute control over their demesne. Caus Castle was built by Roger le Corbet in the late 11th century as a high motte with a very small summit on which stood a tower and a strongly defended inner bailey.
The castle was sufficiently important that the Crown took an interest in its maintenance. Henry II of England had it garrisoned in 1165. In 1198 Roger Corbet re-built the tower, keep and curtain wall in stone. During the late 12th century a town or borough was founded in the large outer Bailey. A royal grant of 50 marks was made in 1263 towards further building work, when D-shape towers were added to the curtain wall. The town contained a church of St Margaret as well as the castle's church of St Nicholas, and the names of two thoroughfares, Castle Street and St Margaret Street are recorded.[1] On the death of Beatrice Corbet in 1347 Caus passed to the Earl of Stafford. At its height the borough had 58 burgesses resident in 1349,[2] a year coinciding with the arrival of the Black Death in England.
Caus (alternatively spelled Caux or Cause) was garrisoned by the Seneschal Griffith ap Ieuan ap Madoc ap Gwenwys against the rebellion of Owain Glyndwr in the 15th century, but following calls from Welsh graduates in law and students in the University of Oxford he changed sides and supported Glyndwr. As a result his family lands and role at Caus Castle were forfeited in 1404, only to be restored by Henry V of England in 1419 after his sons Ieuan ap Griffith and Sir Gruffudd Vychan captured John Oldcastle for Lord Charlton of Powys.
On 10 Aug. 1443, at Caus Castle Sir Gruffudd Vychan pierced with a lance the heart of his master, Sir Christopher Talbot (1419?1443), son of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and the champion tilter of England. He was outlawed, a reward of 500 marks (?166 6s 8d) offered for his capture, and his lands were passed to John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, as the death of the young knight was not regarded as an accident. The Earl of Stafford rarely used the castle in the 15th and 16th centuries so that it was recorded in great decay in 1521,[2] had only two resident tenants in 1541,[1] and was finally deserted after it was destroyed, during the English Civil War after falling as a minor Royalist garrison in June 1645.[3]
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{http://www.castlewales.com/caus.html .... Includes photos of the site}
It is probable that the outer earthworks of this site are those of an Iron Age fort, adapted in medieval times to form the outer bailey of this impressive castle. It consists of a high motte with a very small summit, crowned with the ruins of a small stone tower; and a massively defended inner bailey. The bailey contained a borough probably created by Roger Corbet in 1198 and it is recorded that by 1349 there were 58 burgesses living there. However, in 1521 the castle was described as being in great ruin and decay.
The Corbets were a Marcher family who succeeded to the borderlands of the Norman earldom of Shrewsbury after 1102. Nearby, on lower ground, is the ringwork site of a former timber castle known as Hawcock's Mount, a name which is a corruption of "Old Caus." Here, as at Montgomery, a stone castle succeeded a timber one. In the late 11th century, the Corbets were the most powerful tenants of the earls of Shrewsbury in this area, and Old Caus was probably built as part of the initial Norman settlement of the area. Just as Roger de Montgomery named his new castle after his place of origin in Normandy, so also the Corbets adopted a nostalgic name, derived from the Pays de Caux, for their castle.
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