Ludlow

Ludlow is an English town in the county of Shropshire, England close to the border with Wales. It counts 9850 inhabitants and was the administrative seat of the former South Shropshire District.

The city is a member of Cittaslow, a company incorporated in Italy in 1999 motion to decelerate and increase the quality of life in cities.

After the city was a erdzeitgeschichtliche era, the Ludlow named.

History

City and castle date back to the founding of the Norman noble family of De Lacy. Walter de Lacy got the Conqueror granted lands in the Welsh border area for his participation in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 by Wilhelm. He and his descendants founded the city in an almost rectangular bend in the River Teme, and endowed them with a strong fortification. After the Norman tradition first arose a moth of wood on a mound of earth. In Ludlow, this may have been the hill, which gave its name to the syllable " low" of the city. "Loaded " means as much as "loud" and points to the roar of the rapids of the river Mere at this point. The oldest still preserved, already stone-built part of the castle is the courtyard, which was built between 1086 and 1094 by Walter de Lacy's son Roger de Lacy. 1130 was the keep it.

Through foundations of the de Lacy family, the city was extended in 1138 and first mentioned. In 1177, the city is said to have had 1172 inhabitants ( in 2005 it had 9850 inhabitants).

Town and castle were in 1306 handed down to the Mortimer family. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March was in conflict with Edward II and Edward III. involved.

During the Wars of the Roses, the castle of Ludlow was briefly the headquarters of the leader of the house of York: The later Edward IV collected here in late summer 1459 his partisans, but was still asked by the army of Margaret of Anjou in Ludlow and lost the battle of Ludlow on 12 October. 1459, which led to his flight abroad and the temporary victory of the house of Lancaster.

In the late Middle Ages was Ludlow seat of the " Council of Wales and the Marches "; Residence of the Prince of Wales, notably Arthur Tudor, who in 1502 died there, and his wife Catherine of Aragon and Mary Tudor, who resided there from 1525 to 1528 with its own court.

Geology

The Ludlow (rarely also Ludlowium or Ludlovium ) is in Earth's history, a chronostratigraphic series within the Silurian, which was named after the town of Ludlow.