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	Thornbury Castle
	A history of the Manor and Castle

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Meet the Castle Builder.

Who was executed?

A holders family tree

A history of the castle

Once a manor house

Other castles

How it might have looked

Paintings of the castle

An owner's timeline

A plan of the castle

A modern hotel

Sir Algar a local hero

The families:

Centuries:

Pevious holders			Next holders

Aumaie de Montfort	Amice FitzRobert	Isobel FitzRobert	Gilbert de Clare	Richard de Clare
1183	1213	1213	1225	1230
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(1) Isobel FITZROBERT

c.1173-1217

Title: Countess of Gloucester.

AKA: Isabelle, Hawise, Joan & Eleanor.

The manor: Isobel co-inherited the manor with her sister Amice from her nephew Aumarie and held it between 1213-25.

Marriage: John and Isobel were half second cousins and their marriage annulled! Isobel married 3 times.

Father William Fitzrobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester.

Mother Hawise de Beaumont.

Son Henry III

Further information: Read more about Isobel on the Internet.

Isobel also married

(1) Geoffrey FITZGEOFFREY de MANVILLE

c.1191-1216

Titles: 2nd Earl of Essex; 4th Earl of Gloucester.

Famous event: Geoffrey was a signitory on the Magna Carta.

Father Geoffry FitzPeter, 1st Earl of Essex.

Mother ?

Isobel also married:

(3) Hubert de BURGH

c.1160-1243

Titles: 1st Earl of Kent; Justiciar of England; Constable of Dover Castle;Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports;

Marriage: He married 3 times.

Father Walter de Burgh

Mother ?

(2) John of NORMANDY

1166-1216

AKA: Jack Lackland.

Title: John I; King of England.

Ancestry: Son of Henry II.

Marriage: He married twice.

Father Henry II, King of England.

Mother Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Further information: Read more about John on the Internet.

John also married:

(2) Isabella of ANGOULEME

c.1188-1246

Family: 7 sons 7 daughters.

Son Richard Plantagenet.

Ruling monarchs

John I

Henry III

A timeline of the holders of the manor and castle from Saxon times to the modern day.


Alfred the Great	Edward the Elder	Altelstan	Aelfwaerd	Aylward	Aelfgar	Brictric	Mathilda	William I	William II	Robert FitzHamon	Mabel FitzHamon	William FitzRobert	Aumarie de Montfort	Amice FitzRobert	Isobel FitzRobert	Gilbert de Clare	Richard de Clare	Gilbert de Clare	Margaret de Clare	Margaret Audley	Hugh de Stafford	Edmund Stafford	Humphrey Stafford	Humphrey Stafford
?	?	?	?	?	980	1051	1062	1070	1083	1090	1107	1157	1183	1213	1213	1225	1230	1262	1295	1342	1349	1386	1403	1460

Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry VII	Edward VI	Mary I	Henry Stafford	Ursula Pole	Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry Stafford	Mary Stafford	William Howard	Henry Stafford Howard	William Stafford Howard	Thomas Howard	Philip Howard	Edward Howard	Henry Molyneux-Howard	Henry Howard	Edward Howard	Algar Howard	Kenneth Bell	Maurice Taylor	Hotel groups
1470	1483	1521	1547	1553	1554	1554	1563	1566	1603	1625	1637	1637	1693	1719	1727	1732	1750	1777	1824	1875	1916	1966	1988	?