The Caldicot Castle seen today is considered to date back to around 1221 when Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, started construction. However, being located in Caldicot, Monmouthshire, South Wales at the mouth of the River Severn, the site had held strategic importance since the Iron Age with a much-later former Saxon castle built nearby by the Norman earls of Hereford around 1100. Caldicot Castle remained in the Bohun family until 1376 when it was passed onto Thomas of Woodstock, the fifth son on King Edward III, when he married Alianore de Bohun. As with many castles, through neglect the castle fell into ruin until it was sold to Charles Lewis of St Pierre in 1957, who subsequently sold it to Joseph Richard Cobb who began the restoration. The Chepstow Rural District Council purchased the castle from the Cobb family in 1964.
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