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476:, first published 1594) depicts the murder at Berkeley Castle, using props mentioned in Holinshed, and popular stories of a red-hot poker or suffocation continue to circulate. The cell where Edward is supposed to have been imprisoned and murdered can still be seen, along with the adjacent 11 m (36 ft) deep dungeon, which supposedly echoes the events of the murder every year on 21 September. Holinshed's account records that, leading up to the murder, Edward's keepers "lodged the miserable prisoner in a chamber ouer a foule filthie dungeon, full of dead carrion, trusting so to make an end of him, with the abhominable stinch thereof: but he bearing it out stronglie, as a man of a tough nature, continued still in life." 459:
have) through the pipe of a trumpet a plumbers instrument of iron made verie hot, the which passing up into his intrailes, and being rolled to and fro, burnt the same, but so as no appearance of any wound or hurt outwardlie might be once perceived. His crie did moove manie within the castell and towne of Berkley to compassion, plainelie hearing him utter a wailefull noise, as the tormentors were about to murther him, so that diverse being awakened therewith (as they themselues confessed) praied heartilie to God to receive his soule, when they understood by his crie what the matter ment.
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they came suddenlie one night into the chamber where he laie in bed fast asléepe, and with heavie featherbeds or a table (as some write) being cast upon him, they kept him down and withall put into his fundament an horne, and through the same they thrust up into his bodie an hot spit, or (as other
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at the time was that Edward had met with a fatal accident, but Holinshed and other historical sources record that great effort was made to keep the murder secret. The body was embalmed and remained lying in state at Berkeley for a month, in the Chapel of St John within the castle keep, before Thomas
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for burial. Thomas was later charged with being an accessory to the murder, but his defence was that it was carried out by the agents of Roger Mortimer while he was away from the castle, and in 1337 he was cleared of all charges.
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Since 1956, Berkeley Castle has been open to visitors (for a fee) and remains open from April to November (in 2023) on certain days of the week. The property has also been available for rent for private events.
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the breach is partially filled by a subsequent 'modern' rebuild, but this only amounts to a low garden wall, to stop people falling 28 feet from the Keep Garden, the original Castle's "motte".
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A restoration appeal was launched in 2006 to raise £5.5 million needed to renovate and restore the Norman building. The castle is the third-oldest continuously occupied castle in
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The Berkeley Castle Charitable Trust received a grant from the Cotswolds LEADER Programme in 2022; the funds were used to help renovate the Education Room.
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since they reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership under the
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in 1327. The Castle's website lists additional productions which have completed some filming there.
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for 2019/20, inherited the castle and estate from his father, Major John Berkeley (1931–2017).
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followed, probably between 1160 & 1190 by Robert and then by his son Sir Maurice Berkeley.
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visited Berkeley in August 1535, after staying at Gloucester. In the late 16th century Queen
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learnt of her ancestry. Cox was informed that she is a 21-generation direct descendant of
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between 1153 and 1156, probably on the site of the former motte. The building of the
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In the 14th century, the Great Hall was given a new roof and it is here the last
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The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England
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The castle, traditionally believed to have been the scene of the murder of King
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Historical sources record that Edward was murdered there on 21 September 1327.
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repaired and remodelled parts of the castle and added a new porch in the same
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Berkeley Castle's shell keep and inner gatehouse, viewed from the outer bailey
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that was reputed to have been grown from a cutting taken from a tree at the
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giving him permission to rebuild the castle. Fitzharding built the circular
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Covered walkway leading to Edward II's supposed cell within Berkeley Castle
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Much of the rest of Berkeley Castle is 14th century and was built for
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For the castle of the same name in West Virginia in the United States, see
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Berkeley Castle was used for many scenes for the 2003 television film of
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were the founders of the Berkeley family which still owns the castle.
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Prior, Stuart J.; Horton, Mark; Trimmis, Konstantinos, eds. (2023).
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Berkeley Castle's terrace now turfed and planted as a wall garden
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of Edward II. Then in 1327, King Edward was deposed by his wife
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and 22-generation descendant of Lord Berkeley's father-in-law,
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A dispute about the ownership of Berkeley Castle between
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in England, Dickie Pearce, died after falling from the
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Berkeley Castle was ransacked in 1326 by the forces of
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Index

Samuel Taylor Suit Cottage
Berkeley, Gloucestershire

Berkeley Castle is located in Gloucestershire
51°41′19″N 02°27′25″W / 51.68861°N 2.45694°W / 51.68861; -2.45694
grid reference
ST685989
Listed Building
1340692

/ˈbɑːrkli/
BARK-lee
castle
Berkeley, Gloucestershire
England
English Heritage
listed building
Edward II
Berkeley family
Tudors
Berkeley barony
earldom
8th and last Earl of Berkeley
ancestral seat
13th cousin
Captain Robert Berkeley
Spetchley Park
Worcestershire
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire
motte-and-bailey

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