Castle: Eure & Baliol Family History

BARNARD CASTLE
Durham, England

Ariel View of  Barnard Castle Walls

 

BOWES MUSEUM, BARNARD CASTLE, CO DURHAM

 

Berwyck/Berwick Castle Northumberland England

Berwyck Castle located in Northumberland  England



If I can straighten out my Eure families pedigree then I can know for certain if I indeed have a connection to this Castle.

Berwick Castle

A Castle In Flint? Its actually in Flintshire, Wales

Flintshire Northeast Wales has a little secret in it.  Some would say it is not little since it as big as a Castle!  Are you familiar with Flint, Michigan or Flintshire, Wales? 

Please note all photos of  are by Irma Hale are copywritten.
I am using them with her permission
Photographs copyright © 2002 by Irma Hale

In Northeast Wales is Flintshire

Where there is a Castle to discover.

Maybe your Family came from Flintshire.

They may of even taken on the name of Flint as their family name. Which could be alot of diffrent families. 

 So you might not be blood related to all the other folks with the name of Flint

Learn and see more at:
http://www.castlewales.com/wales_ne.html
http://www.castlewales.com/flint.html


I grew up in the beautiful state of Michigan. I enjoy highlighting it.  I do not have know Ancestors that are from Flintshire, Wales.
However Flint, MI was the major City close by.
 I thought it will be great fun to highlight Flint Castle on my blog. I hope you enjoyed!

Flamborough Castle, UK

Information & photos came from :

Flamborough Castle
TA 226-703 Yorkshire England

Flamborough Castle was originally a medieval fortified manor house, founded by Constable family. In 1351 and 1352, Marmaduke Constable founded the stone castle, when he was granted a licence to crenellate. The earlier clay rampart and ditch, was strengthen by a chalk curtain wall and a small chalk pele tower, with a vaulted basement, added to the complex range of buildings. Now only surrounded by earthworks, the three remaining walls of the Danish Tower, stand to first floor level. 4 miles south-west is The Bayle and 10 miles north-west is Hunmanby Castle.

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 You may also like to a peek at this web site: http://www.flamboroughmanor.co.uk/village.htm
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Coat of Arms of Constable

Scottish Castle Duart

My Scottish Ancestors seem to of found so many ways to have Castles in their troves.  Another Castle associated with my ancestors.






                         Duart Castle

Scotland

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 Lets Fight Over The Castle

*In 1350 Lachlan Lubanach Maclean of Duart, the 5th Clan Chief, married Mary, daughter of the John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and she was given Duart as her dowry.^[2]

In 1647, Duart Castle was attacked and laid siege to by the Argyll government troops of Clan Campbell, but they were defeated and driven off by the Royalist troops of Clan MacLean.
In September 1653, a Cromwellian task force of six ships anchored off the castle, but the Macleans had already fled to Tiree. A storm blew up on the 13 September and three ships were lost, including HMS Swan.
In 1678, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, son of the Marquess of Argyll, successfully invaded the Clan MacLean lands on the Isle of Mull and Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet fled the castle and withdrew to Cairnbulg Castle, and afterward to Kintail under the protection of the Earl of Seaforth.^[3]
In 1691 Duart Castle was surrendered by Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet to Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll.^[1] The Campbell clan demolished the castle, and the stones from the walls were scattered. Donald Maclean, 5th Laird of Torloisk used some of the stones to build a cottage for his family close to the site of the castle.^[4]
By 1751 the remains of the castle were abandoned.
Descendants of Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll sold the castle in 1801, to MacQuarrie, who then sold it to Carter-Campbell of Possil who kept it as a ruin within the grounds of his own estate to the north, Torosay Castle. He later sold his Torosay Estate which now included the ruins of Castle Duart to A. C. Guthrie in 1865. On September 11, 1911, the ruin was separated from the rest of the Torosay Estate and was bought by Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, the 26th Chief of the Clan MacLean and restored.<sup>[1][5][6]

* All information found on Wikipedia.org  Amazing what great Family History stuff you can find there.</sup>

Van Valkenburg Castle

If you fly right on over to Holland/ Belgium

You could find Castles  if you are a descendant of the Van Valkenburg you would be thrilled to go and see where these ancestors came from.

My Van Valkenburg is from Dorothy Hainer daughter of Albert Hainer & Catherine Vollick.  Dorothy was born in Ontario.  She married David Putman in Niagara, Ontario

Present day Ariel view of Castle Van Valkenburg

It's so fun to find out my Family History!!!









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"How the Castle
Came to Ruin

The story starts in the year 1648, when Holland became an independent nation, after being a Spanish colony. The southern provincies (now Belgium) however, remained Spanish soil. The borders were unclear which resulted into many struggles and battles.
The Spanish presence was weak (too far away from the homeland), so there was pressure from Holland and from France to conquer those provinces.
The French king Louis XIV was successful as he pushed north and conquered Valkenburg. Maastricht (the province capital) remained a strong Dutch bastion, but now under threat from the Valkenburg fortress.
Stadtholder Willem III (in Maastricht) sent "commandos" to Valkenburg and captured the city for a special mission:
On December 6th, 1672, the castle was blown up with gunpowder and explosives. Willem III decided not to conquer the town and to use the castle as a fortress, but simply to destroy and leave. This was effective, because the French were no now longer interested. With Valkenburg eliminated as a stronghold the town became a quiet village with little strategic importance for centuries to come. Stadtholder Willem III later went on to become King William III of England."

from  http://www.navvf.org/

"Valkenburg

There are actually three Valkenburg towns in the Netherlands: Valkenburg aan de Geul (Valkenburg on the Geul River), Oud Valkenburg (Old Valkenburg), both in the Limburg Province in the southeast of the Netherlands, near Maastricht.

See vvv South Limburg and http://www.visitvalkenburg.nl (in Dutch)


There is also Valkenburg, Zuid-Holland (Valkenburg South Holland) on the Rijn river not too far from Leiden, which is noted for having a big Royal Navy - NATO airbase and which had a large archeaological dig of ancient Roman hill-forts during the 1980s. "




All information came from www.navvf.org