Snape Castle (Snape)

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Snape Castle is a fascinating historic building which during its existence has had many famous occupants, many being kinsmen to several English Kings and prominent families. There was a manor on the site of the present castle, built in 1250 by Lord Ranulph Fitzranulf, which passed into the ownership of the Neville family. They subsequently replaced it by building the castle between 1420 – 1450 and it remained in their family until 1798. In 1483 Lady Cecily, being a Neville, and then later the widowed Duchess of York and mother of Richard III, came to live in the castle to be later joined by Richard’s wife, Queen Anne. Lady Cecily was the grandmother of the ‘Princes in the Tower’.

Catherine Parr, widow of Sir John Neville, lived here for 10 years before becoming Henry VIII's sixth wife in 1543.

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