In the English county of Northumberland, there lies a medieval fortress known as Warkworth Castle, which is now in ruins. Situated less than a mile from the northeast coast of England, the village and castle are situated around a loop of the River Coquet. The castle may have been erected by King Henry II of England when he seized control of the northern counties, however Prince Henry of Scotland, Earl of Northumbria, is generally credited with building it around the middle of the 12th century. The first record of Warkworth Castle dates back to 1157–1164, when Roger fitz Richard received a charter from Henry II. When the Scots invaded in 1173, the timber castle was left undefended and was thought to be weak. Robert, son of Roger, inherited the castle and made improvements. King John loved Robert so much that in 1213 he invited him to stay at Warkworth Castle. With periods of guardianship when heirs were too young to manage their holdings, the castle stayed in the family. In 1292, John de Clavering, a Roger Fitz Richard descendant, claimed the Crown as his own after King Edward I spent the night there. Edward II made investments in castles at the start of the Anglo-Scottish Wars, one of which being Warkworth, where he provided funds for the reinforcement of the garrison in 1319. The Scots unsuccessfully assaulted the castle twice in 1327. After John de Clavering passed away in 1332 and his widow in 1345, the 2nd Baron Percy of Alnwick assumed ownership of Warkworth Castle after Edward III had promised him estate of Clavering. Added in the late 14th century by Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, the impressive keep watches over the settlement of Warkworth. The fourth earl started constructing a collegiate church inside the castle and remodeled the bailey-buildings, but after his passing, he stopped working on the project. The English Civil War caused damage to the castle, despite support of the 10th Earl of Northumberland for Parliament. That Percy earl passed away in 1670. Hugh Smithson, who wed the indirect Percy heiress, acquired the castle in the middle of the eighteenth century. Taking the surname Percy, he established the lineage of the Dukes of Northumberland, who subsequently inherited the castle. The dukes renovated Warkworth Castle in the late 1800s, and Anthony Salvin was hired to rebuild the keep. In 1922, the Office of Works took administration of the castle from the 8th Duke of Northumberland. The building is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade I listed structure that has been in the care of English Heritage since 1984 [Information and Image Credit : Warkworth_Castle, Wikipedia] [Wikipedia-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warkworth_Castle ] [Image : The Enclosure and Keep of the Castle; Wikipedia-Image-Author : Draco2008 from UK] [Image is availed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License; (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property and Sharing, Remixing or Attributing the Work)] [License-Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en ] [Wikipedia-Image-Source-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Warkworth_Castle_interior,_2007.jpg ] #Castles#History
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