Qualla: Middleham Castle https://qualla.com/middleham-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/s/middleham-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Middleham Castle https://qualla.com/middleham-castle Middleham Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/middleham-castle/ Photo credit St. J. O'Neill, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Public domain. Before he was the most controversial king in English history, Richard Plantagenet was a boy in Wensleydale. He arrived at Middleham Castle around 1461, sent north as a ward of Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, after his father died at Wakefield. He learned to ride here, learned to fight here, eventually married Warwick's daughter Anne here. The square Norman keep that watched over his lessons still stands above the small market town, roofless now but stubbornly intact. Few buildings on the English landscape carry so much of one man's life inside their walls.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/s/middleham-castle-wp/gcws-middleham-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Middleham Castle: Stone on Stone https://qualla.com/middleham-castle/ Photo credit Davegill70, CC BY-SA 3.0. Construction began in 1190 under Robert Fitzrandolph, the third Lord of Middleham, on a site chosen to guard the road from Richmond to Skipton. An earlier motte-and-bailey castle stood nearby on William's Hill, where forty feet of earthworks still rise above the surrounding field...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/s/middleham-castle-wp/gcws-middleham-castle-stone-on-stone.mp3 0:06 2 full Middleham Castle: The Kingmaker's Ward https://qualla.com/middleham-castle/ Photo credit David Hatch, CC BY-SA 2.0. The castle passed to the Neville family in 1270, and reached its peak under Richard Neville, the sixteenth Earl of Warwick, the man history calls the Kingmaker. He fought on both sides of the Wars of the Roses, deposing one king and crowning another. When the young Richard of Glo...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/s/middleham-castle-wp/gcws-middleham-castle-the-kingmakers-ward.mp3 0:06 3 full Middleham Castle: After Bosworth https://qualla.com/middleham-castle/ Photo credit Lisa Batty, CC BY-SA 2.0. Richard became king in 1483 and almost never returned to Middleham. His two-year reign ended at Bosworth Field in 1485, the last English king to die in battle. Henry VII seized the castle and the Crown held it for more than a century. Under Elizabeth I, the Earl of Huntingdon wro...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/s/middleham-castle-wp/gcws-middleham-castle-after-bosworth.mp3 0:06 4 full Middleham Castle: Horses and Pilgrims https://qualla.com/middleham-castle/ Photo credit Cyberdemon007 at en.wikipedia, Public domain. Middleham today is a small town wrapped in racehorses. Trainers exercise strings of thoroughbreds across the surrounding moors at dawn, hooves drumming on the same turf that medieval squires once rode. The connection runs deep. The nearby Cistercian monks of Jervaulx Abbey began ...

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