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The later owners of Bletchingley Castle
+Dennis Turner
The story of the de Clare owners of Bletchingley, earls of Gloucester and Hereford, is here continued, together with that of subsequent owners of the castle site. Tradition asserts that Bletchingley Castle was 'slighted' [ie rendered untenable] at the time of the battle of Lewes (1264). This paper argues that a persistent animosity between the de Clare family and Roger de Leyburn, sometime steward of the Lord Edward and later sheriff of Kent, which was never resolved, may have had a fundamental bearing on the ultimate fate of Bletchingley Castle, and a new scenario and date for its destruction are proposed.
