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Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire is in Tutbury, Staffordshire, Castles in Staffordshire.
Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map] is on the River Dove around four miles upstream of where it joins the River Trent.
After 1066 Hugh "Wolf Fat" Avranches 1st Earl Chester (age 19) was given command of Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
Around 1136 William Ferrers 3rd Earl of Derby was born to Robert Ferrers 2nd Earl of Derby and Margaret Peverell Countess Derby (age 22) at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
Around 1204 Hugh Ferrers 6th Baron Burford (age 37) died at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
In 1239 Robert Ferrers 6th Earl of Derby was born to William Ferrers 5th Earl of Derby (age 46) and Margaret Quincy Countess Derby at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map]. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.65%.
On 13th January 1312 Margaret Bardolf Baroness Welles was born to Thomas Bardolf 2nd Baron Bardolf (age 29) and Agnes Grandison Baroness Bardolf (age 23) at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
Around 1320 Mary Plantagenet Baroness Percy was born to Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster (age 39) and Maud Chaworth (age 37) at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map]. She a great granddaughter of King Henry III of England.
On 12th September 1368 Blanche Duchess of Lancaster (age 26) died at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map]. Her last words were said to be "Souveyne vous de moi" ("Don't forget me") the 'S' of which was possibly subsequently represented on the Lancastrian Esses Collar. She was buried at St Paul's Cathedral [Map]. Her son Henry of Grosmont (age 1) succeeded 3rd Earl Derby, 6th Earl Lancaster.
On 28th March 1484 Marmaduke Constable (age 27) was appointed Constable of Tutbury Castle.
On 26th January 1569 Mary Queen of Scots (age 26) was moved to the custody of George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 41) and his wife Bess of Hardwick (age 42) at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 2nd February 1569 George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 41) was Keeper of Mary Queen of Scots (age 26) at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
In September 1569 George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 41) was Keeper of Mary Queen of Scots (age 26) at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
In January 1585 John St John 2nd Baron St John (age 50) made keeper of Mary Queen of Scots (age 42) at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
Archaeologia Volume V32 1847 Section X. It was determined, therefore, to place the Queen under his care. The determination appears to have been taken as early as the month of October, for in the private correspondence of the family we find a report of a conversation with Queen Elizabeth in that month, in which she spoke in terms of high regard of the lady whom the earl had recently taken to wife, originally Elizabeth Hardwick, a daughter of the family of that name, to whom Hardwick [Map] belonged, and widow successively of Robert Barley, Sir William Cavendish, and Sir William Saint Loe, and expressed much solicitude to know when the earl might be expected at court; and again, a letter from the earl himself to his countess, written in November, wherein he informs her that he had been at court, and that the Queen had intimated to him that "ere it were long he should well perceive she did so trust him as she did few." He understood this to mean that he was to have the care of the Scottish Queen; and finally, in a third letter, which is dated on the 13th of December, he writes—"Now it is certain the Scots Queen comes to Tutbury [Map], to my chargea."
Note a. Hallamshire, fol. 1819, p. 64. These and other letters, the private and, as to some of them, the very confidential correspondence of Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury, passed, by some means and at some unknown time, out of the archives of the Cavendish family. They lay for half a century buried in a mase of antiquarian collections made by a Yorkshire antiquary of the last century, John Wilson, of Bromhead, where they were discovered by me in 1806. The whole collection was sold by auction a few years ago.
The River Dove rises on Axe Edge Moor, Derbyshire [Map] after which it travels broadly south past Longnor, Saffordshire [Map], Pilsbury [Map], Hartington, Derbyshire [Map], Milldale, Derbyshire [Map], Thorpe, Derbyshire [Map], just before whic it is joined by the River Manifold, Mapleton, Derbyshire [Map], Mayfield, Staffordshire [Map], Norbury, Derbyshire [Map], Rocester, Staffordshire [Map], Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire [Map] and Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map] before joining the River Trent at Newton Solney, Derbyshire [Map].
Chronicle of the Monastery of Melsa. On the same day, the said castle of Tutbury [Map] was surrendered to the king.
Eodem die redditum est regi dictum castrum de Tuttebery.