Framlingham Castle is an important castle in the market town of Framlingham, Suffolk, England. Map sources for Framlingham at grid reference TM2863 Framlingham is a market town in East Suffolk, England. ... Suffolk (pronounced suffuk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity...
It was built by Roger Bigod, and became the seat of the Earls of Norfolk and the Dukes of Norfolk. Roger Bigod (d. ... Earl of Norfolk is a title which has been created several times in the Peerage of England. ... The Duke of Norfolk is the Premier Duke in the peerage of England, and also, as Earl of Arundel, the Premier Earl. ...
One of it's most famous residents was Mary Tudor before she was crowned Queen.
It is now managed by English Heritage. English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ...
References
R. Allen Brown, "Framlingham Castle and Bigod 1154-1216", Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, 25 (1950), 127-48, reprinted in his book Castles, Conquest and Charters
The castle forms a picturesque ruin, consisting of the outer walls 44 ft. high and 8 ft. thick, 13 towers about 58 ft. high, a gateway and some outworks.
Framlingham (Frendlingham, Framalingaham) in early Saxon times was probably the site of a fortified earthwork to which St Edmund the Martyr is said to have fled from the Danes in 870.
On an account roll of FramlinghamCastle of 1324 there is an entry of rent received from the borough, also of rent from those living outside the borough, and in all probability burghal rights had existed at a much earlier date, when the town had grown into some importance under the shelter of the castle.
FramlinghamCastle has 12 hollow towers (a 13th collapsed) connected by a large curtain wall, 13m high and 2.5m thick.
In 1553, King Edward VI gave FramlinghamCastle to his sister Mary, and it was at this castle, a few months later, that she learnt she had been made queen.
The castle courtyard once contained a number of stone buildings, including a great hall, but this was demolished in order to build a workhouse in 1664, and the other buildings were pulled down in 1688.
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