Guy's Cliffe
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Guy's Cliffe is a hamlet and former civil parish on the River Avon and the Coventry Road between Warwick and Leek Wootton, in the parish of Leek Wootton and Guy's Cliffe, in the Warwick district, in W
The manor house at Guy's Cliffe, c. 1880
Guy's Cliffe, 2006
The 1821 Gaveston monument at Blacklow Hill.
The ruin from across the river in 2016
Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall was an English nobleman of Gascon origin, and the favourite of Edward II of England.
Guy's Cliffe
…stables, kitchen garden and land as far as Blacklow Hill to the north-west of the house. It is the site of an ancient settlement and the location of Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall's murder. In 1821 Bertie Greatheed erected a stone cross to mark the execution, ‘Gaveston's Cross’, and later commented in his diary that he could read…
15th-century representation of Gaveston lying dead at the feet of Guy de Beauchamp
Initial from the charter granting Gaveston the earldom of Cornwall, showing the arms of England at top, and Gaveston's coat of arms impaled with those of de Clare below.
View of Warwick Castle from St Mary's Church
Gaveston's Head Shown to the Earl of Lancaster, from a popular history book of 1868