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In the 12th century the Normans built a Motte-and-bailey on a nearby hill above the settlement of Bolingbroke. [1] The present structure was founded by Ranulf, Earl of Chester , in 1220 shortly after he returned from the Fifth Crusade .
Bolingbroke Castle was one of three castles built by Ranulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, in the 1220s after his return from the Crusades (the others being Beeston Castle, Cheshire, and Chartley, Staffordshire).
This castle built by Randulph de Blundeville, the Earl of Lincoln, became the home of the powerful John of Gaunt in the 14th century and was the birthplace of his son, Henry Bolingbroke, who later became King Henry IV.
The monument includes the remains of Bolingbroke Castle, built in the early 13th century by Randulph de Blundevil, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. In the late 13th and early 14th centuries it served as an administrative centre for the extensive estates of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, before passing by marriage in 1311 to the house of Lancaster.
Bolinbroke Castle was built by the powerful Norman baron, Ranulf de Blundeville, Earl of Lincoln and Chester, following his return from the fifth crusade in 1220. The castle was constructed during 1220-1230 in the same design as two of Ranulf’s other castles, one being in Beeston, Cheshire and the other in Chartley, Staffordshire.
Bolingbroke Castle was handed down over the years until it became the property of Blanche of Lancaster, who married the powerful John of Gaunt. John and Blanche lived at the castle during the 1360s and 1370s, and their son Henry Bolingbroke was born there in 1366. Henry Bolingbroke became King Henry IV of England in 1399, but instead of
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The remains of a 13th-century hexagonal castle, birthplace in 1367 of the future King Henry IV, with adjacent earthworks. Besieged and taken by Cromwell's Parliamentarians in 1643.
