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Bodiam
Castle was begun in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge. Born
about 1346, Dalyngrigge spent his early adult life
fighting in France with King Edward III, who had
initiated the Hundred Years War in the 1330s when he laid
claim to the French throne. Dalyngrigge returned to
England in 1377 a wealthy man, and was made Knight of the
Shire of Sussex in 1379. He married into the estate of
Bodiam, and with the threat of an invasion from France
continuing, King Richard II granted him license to
crenellate Bodiam manor. Dalyngrigge instead chose to
build a new castle in the middle of a rectangular spring-fed
pond on the estate (which incidently was not even close
to the English channel). |
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