Qualla: Wingfield Castle https://qualla.com/wingfield-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wingfield Castle https://qualla.com/wingfield-castle Wingfield Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/wingfield-castle/ The south wall of Wingfield Castle rises 42 feet above the moat, built of flint cobbles with stone corners, with Tudor brick merlons added on top and the grooves of the old portcullis still visible in the gateway arch. Behind it lies a private house that has not been open to the public in living memory. The castle it replaced — a proper medieval fortification — is mostly gone: the north and east walls demolished by 1945, the western section torn down in the 16th century to make room for a newer manor house. What stands is a gateway, a wall, two towers, and a moat that still holds water. It is enough to suggest what Wingfield once was: the ancestral seat of families close to the highest levels of English power across two centuries of turbulent history.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/c/wingfield-castle-wp/u12c-wingfield-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wingfield Castle: Built for Power, Not War https://qualla.com/wingfield-castle/ The castle dates from 1384, when Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk, applied to the Crown for a royal licence to crenellate his manor house. By that point, the age of true military castles was largely over — kings were suspicious of private fortifications and rarely granted ...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/c/wingfield-castle-wp/u12c-wingfield-castle-built-for-power-not-war.mp3 0:06 2 full Wingfield Castle: A Prisoner from Agincourt https://qualla.com/wingfield-castle/ Among the most extraordinary episodes in Wingfield's history is the long captivity of Charles, Duke of Orléans, who was captured at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and held — partly at Wingfield — for decades. His family offered ransom repeatedly. Henry V refused to allow his rel...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/c/wingfield-castle-wp/u12c-wingfield-castle-a-prisoner-from-agincourt.mp3 0:06 3 full Wingfield Castle: Chaucer's Granddaughter and the Rock Stars https://qualla.com/wingfield-castle/ William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, married Alice Chaucer — granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer — in 1430 and lived at Wingfield. The literary connection is improbable and entirely real. After William's death, Alice moved to Wallingford Castle. The dukedom continued through va...

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