Bellingham Castle
Bellingham Castlewas amotte and bailey fortressinNorthumberland,founded by the De Bellingham family. Its remains lie 5 miles east ofDally Castle,near the village ofBellingham.There is no evidence to suggest that any fortification existed on the site before 1157, when the lands were granted as liberty to the King of Scotland.[1]According to sources, a castle and manor house was erected on a mound now known as Hallsfield during the reign of Richard II by a certain Richard De Bellingham of the De Bellingham Family, who were given the estate as well as the title of Baron by the monarch. The estate was then passed on to the Derwentwater family. However due to his joining the rebel cause during theJacobite Rising of 1715,James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwaterwas stripped of his title and his estate and after hisattainderand execution, the manor was awarded to the Governors of theGreenwich Hospital.[2][3]By the 13th century all traces of the castle proper and its fortifications had been lost.
References
[edit]- ^Philip Davis."Bellingham Castle (The Gatehouse Record)".gatehouse-gazetteer.info.Retrieved9 March2020.
- ^Clarke, Benjamin (1852).The British Gazetteer, Political, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, and Historical: Showing the Distances of Each Place from London and Derby--gentlemen's Seats--populations... &c. Illustrated by a Full Set of County Maps, with All the Railways Accurately Laid Down...Published (for the proprietors) by H. G. Collins.
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