Battle of Monmouth (1233)
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The Battle of Monmouth took place on 25 November 1233, the feast day of St Catherine, between forces loyal to Henry III, King of England, and those of Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke and Lord Marsha
The ruined Great Tower of Monmouth Castle
Richard Marshal unhorses Baldwin at a joust. From the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris.
The Church of St Thomas the Martyr at Overmonnow, Monmouth, south east Wales, is located beside the medieval Monnow Bridge across the River Monnow. At least part of the building dates from around 1180
Battle of Monmouth (1233)
…today known as Vauxhall Fields. Other sources suggest, on the basis of an order placed in 1234 for thirty oaks from the Forest of Dean to repair the Church of St Thomas the Martyr, located to the south-west of the town, that the adjoining Monnow Bridge would have been the one mentioned in the chronicle of the fighting and which…
St Thomas' Church, Overmonnow, Monmouth
engraving showing interior of church c. 1800
the church in 1845
engraving by C. Hough of 1845