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Chartley Castle: Chartley Holme: Chartley by Stowe
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- Stowe, Staffordshire
- OSGB – SK 0108 2850
- Scheduled Monument
- Grade II Listed Building.
Medieval motte and bailey castle with two baileys.
900 c: One of the first wooden castles built in England.
11th C End: Owned by the Earls of Chester.
1172 Agatha de Ferrers was born at the castle.
1220 c: Built in stone by Ranulf de Blunderville, Earl of Chester.
1223 Rebuilt in stone.
1232 Passed to the Ferrers family, Earls of Derby, after Ranulf de Blunderville died without issue. It passed to his sister who married William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby.
1260 Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby, inherited the castle.
1273 c: Robert de Ferrers took the castle by force but was soon sent away by Edward I.
1275 Robert de Ferrers had married Eleanor de Bohun and he regained the castle.
13th C Converted into an enclosure castle.
1305 Eleanor de Ferrers was born at the castle.
1309 Sir Robert de Ferrers, Lord of Chartley, was born at the castle.
1387 Edmund de Ferrers, Baron Ferrers of Chartley, was born at the castle.
1412 William de Ferrers, Baron, was born at the castle.
1438 Anna Ferrers, Baroness of Chartley, was born at the castle.
1453 Passed to Walter Devereux when he married Elizabeth Ferrers.
1485 Abandoned.
1545 Itinerary of John Leland: Ruins.
1585 Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned on the site on Christmas Eve.
1958 Field Investigation.
1961 Field Investigation.
1975 Field Investigation.
1998 Watching Brief