Sudeley Castle

Sudeley Castle in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England, is a castle, which dates in its present design from the 15th century, the inhabited part, however, comes from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.. Maybe the building dates back to a castle in the 12th century.

From the builders of today's design, Ralph Boteler, 1st Baron Sudeley, who had financed the property of its revenue during the Hundred Years' War, it passed in 1469 by confiscating the property Edwards IV, who is his brother, the future King Richard III. transferred. 1535 Henry VIII visited the castle with his then-wife Anne Boleyn. Henry's son Edward VI. bequeathed the Kronbesitz Thomas Seymour, his uncle, whom he raised to Baron Seymour of Sudeley and the 1547 Edwards stepmother Catherine Parr married. Thomas Seymour fell out of favor and was beheaded in 1549. His property was confiscated by the Crown. After the castle had then heard a while William Parr, the brother of Catherine, it passed in 1554 into the possession of John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos of Sudeley.

The castle is a well-known garden and the funeral chapel of St. Mary's Sudeley with the marble sarcophagus of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII