A Subscriber's request, Can't believe it amazing history.

Описание: This was a request by our subscriber Sylvia to go to Wales and video for her and her family her ancestors, Sylvia has had a dream to go to visit not only the fantastic effigies of her family but also to visit where Sir William AP Thomas (The blue knight) lived at Raglan castle.

Today I get to show you some of the amazing film we were able to make for her and to leave flowers at the base of her families resting place, the video was all carefully posted to her to the USA and now you get to see some of the video too.
I consider Sylvia to be one of our friends and appreciate all she has done for us. She believed in us and trusted us to do this for her as she is unable to travel. Huge respect goes out to her. We cannot thank you enough.

First we explore the Priory Church at St Mary's Priory
The Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny is a parish church in the centre of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. St. Mary's has been called "the Westminster Abbey of Wales" because of its large size, and the numerous high status tomb monuments and medieval effigies surviving within it.

Then from there we move to Raglan Castle.
Welsh fortress-palace transformed into regal residence

The unmistakable silhouette of Raglan crowning a ridge amid glorious countryside is the grandest castle ever built by Welshmen.

We can thank Sir William ap Thomas, the ‘blue knight of Gwent’, for the moated Great Tower of 1435 that still dominates this mighty fortress-palace. His son Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, created the gatehouse with its flared ‘machicolations’.

These stone arches allowed missiles to be rained down on attackers. But Raglan came 150 years later than the turbulent heyday of castle-building. It was designed to impress as much as to intimidate.

Under various earls of Worcester Raglan was transformed into a magnificent country seat with a fashionable long gallery and one of the finest Renaissance gardens in Britain. But loyalty to the crown was to prove its undoing.

Despite a garrison of 800 men and one of the longest sieges of the Civil War, it fell to parliamentary forces and was deliberately destroyed. Among the looted treasures was a piece of Tudor wooden panelling, now proudly displayed in the visitor centre after being rescued from a cow shed in the 1950s.

INTRO MUSIC COURTESY OF JORY NASH WWW.JORYNASH.COM

#history #knight #castle