Irthington Castle was a castle located near

Irthington Irthington is a village and civil parish within the City of Carlisle district in Cumbria, England, situated to the north-east of Carlisle Lake District Airport. The population in 2011 was 860 according to the 2011 census. Toponymy The name Ir ...

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, England.

History

The barony of Gilsland was granted to

Hubert I de Vaux Hubert de Vaux, also known as Hubert de Vallibus, was a prominent 12th-century English noble. Biography Hubert was a tenant in chief of Baldwin de Redvers, holding land at Farwood Barton in Devonshire. When Baldwin rebelled against King Stephen ...

in 1157 by King

Henry II of England Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (french: link=no, Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress, or Henry Plantagenet, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189, and as such, was the first Angevin king ...

. A timber

motte and bailey castle A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade. Relatively easy to ...

was built by either Hubert or his son Robert. The castle was the caput of the barony of Gilsland until the 14th century, with Ranulph de Dacre, Baron Dacre moving the caput to

Naworth Castle Naworth Castle, also known or recorded in historical documents as "Naward", is a castle in Cumbria, England, near the town of Brampton. It is adjacent to the A69, about east of Brampton. It is on the opposite side of the River Irthing to, and ...

in 1335.

References

*Salter, Mike. ''The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria.'' Folly Publications, Malvern. 1998. p. 62. {{coord missing, Cumbria Castles in Cumbria De Vaux family