Donnington Castle

Donnington Castle is a destroyed medieval mansion, arranged in the little town of Donnington, only north of the town of Newbury in the English area of Berkshire. It was established by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386 and was purchased by Thomas Chaucer before the stronghold was taken under imperial control amid the Tudor time frame. Amid the First English Civil War the palace was held by the royalist Sir John Boys and withstood a 18-month attack; after the army in the long run surrendered, Parliament casted a ballot to decimate Donnington Castle in 1646.

Just the gatehouse survives. The site is under the consideration of English Heritage and is shielded from unapproved change as a planned antiquated landmark. The house of Donnington had been claimed by the Adderbury family since 1292, Donnington Castle was worked by its unique proprietor, Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder, under a permit conceded by Richard II in 1386. The surviving chateau gatehouse dates from this time. In 1398, the manor was sold to Thomas Chaucer, child of the artist Geoffrey Chaucer, as a living arrangement for his little girl Alice, who later moved toward becoming Duchess of Suffolk. The Duke of Suffolk William De La Pole made Donnington his intermittent habitation, and extensively broadened the buildings.