Monmouth Castle
📍 Monmouthshire, Wales
About
Monmouth Castle is a castle close to the centre of the town of Monmouth, the county town of Monmouthshire, on a hill above the River Monnow in south-east Wales.
A Norman castle founded by William fitzOsbern c.1067. Henry V, the victor of Agincourt, was born here in 1386. The castle was the principal seat of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Welsh Marches. It was slighted after the Civil War; the Great Tower survives alongside later buildings now used by the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers militia. Geoffrey of Monmouth, chronicler of Arthurian legend, may have been associated with the castle.
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