Beaumys Castle

Beaumys Castle, also known as Beams Castle, was a 14th-century fortified manor house in the parish of Swallowfield in the English county of Berkshire.

Beaumys Castle
Swallowfield, Berkshire, England
Beaumys Castle
Coordinates51.3760°N 0.9813°W / 51.3760; -0.9813
Grid referencegrid reference SU710646
TypeFortified manor house
Site information
ConditionEarthworks

History

Beaumys Castle was a manor in the parish of Swallowfied, given to Sir Nicholas de la Beche in 1335. De la Beche received a licence to crenellate in 1338 and produced a fortified manor house.[1] The castle was rectangular, protected by earthworks approximately 130m by 110m across, surrounded by a water-filled moat, with the castle accessed from an entrance to the north-west.[2]

De la Beche died, leaving the manor to his wife Margery, who in turn remarried,[1] to Thomas Arderne.[3] On Arderne's death in 1347, however, John de Dalton and a small group of followers broke into the castle, where they killed Michael de Poynings, an important nobleman; terrified Lionel, the son of Edward III who was staying there at the time; stole £1,000 worth of goods, and seized Margaret, whom, as a wealthy widow, was forced to marry John.

The surrounding manor was broken up in 1420; the surviving earthworks are a scheduled monument.[4]

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See also

Bibliography
  • MacKenzie, James Dixon. (1896/2009) The Castles of England: Their Story and Structure. General Books LLC. ISBN 978-1-150-51044-1.

References
  1. Mackenzie, p.170.
  2. Beaumys Castle Monument No. 237298 Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, National Monuments Record, English Heritage, accessed 18 August 2012.
  3. Ford, David Nash (2011). "Margery Poynings (d. 1349)". Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  4. Beaumys Castle Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, National Monuments Record, English Heritage, accessed 13 June 2011
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