Qualla: Baynard's Castle https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/baynard-s-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Baynard's Castle https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle Baynard's Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle/ Photo credit Public domain. Two different castles called Baynard's stood at the western edge of the City of London, just east of where Blackfriars station now sits. The first was a Norman keep raised by Ralph Baynard around the time of the Domesday Book and torn down by King John in 1213. The second was a riverside Tudor palace where Edward IV's accession was proclaimed in 1461 and where Mary I was declared queen in 1553. Both are gone. What remains is a street name, a City of London ward, and an office block called Baynard House. But the river-corner where they stood has been fortified, on and off, since before the Romans left.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/baynard-s-castle-wp/gcpv-baynards-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Baynard's Castle: Where the Fleet Met the Thames https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle/ Photo credit Public domain. Walk along the Thames at Blackfriars today and you would not know that another river joined the Thames here. The Fleet, once one of London's larger rivers, has been reduced to a culvert that emerges quietly under Blackfriars Bridge. In Roman times the Fleet was the western bounda...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/baynard-s-castle-wp/gcpv-baynards-castle-where-the-fleet-met-the-thames.mp3 0:06 2 full Baynard's Castle: The Norman Castle and the Magna Carta https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle/ Photo credit Ealdgyth, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ralph Baynard arrived with William the Conqueror and was made the first feudal baron of Little Dunmow in Essex. The castle he built passed to his son Geoffrey and grandson William Baynard, who lost the lands in the early twelfth century for backing Robert Curthose against Henry I...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/baynard-s-castle-wp/gcpv-baynards-castle-the-norman-castle-and-the-magna-carta.mp3 0:06 3 full Baynard's Castle: Banner of the City https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle/ Photo credit Public domain. Even after the Norman keep was gone, the lord of Castle Baynard held a peculiar place among the nobility of London. The tenure carried the right - claimed in long legal battles - to be the Chief Banneret of London, the man who carried the banner of the city into battle and led it...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/baynard-s-castle-wp/gcpv-baynards-castle-banner-of-the-city.mp3 0:06 4 full Baynard's Castle: The Tudor Palace https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle/ Photo credit Public domain. About a hundred years after King John's demolition, a new mansion was built on land reclaimed from the Thames just south-east of the first castle. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, rebuilt the house after a fire in 1428 and used it to house his family before the Battle of Barnet duri...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/baynard-s-castle-wp/gcpv-baynards-castle-the-tudor-palace.mp3 0:06 5 full Baynard's Castle: The Pembrokes and Two Queens https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle/ Photo credit Wenceslaus Hollar, Public domain. In 1551, during the reign of the young Edward VI, the castle was granted to William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke - brother-in-law to Henry's last queen, Katherine Parr. Pembroke built a great extension around a second courtyard, clearly visible on Wenceslaus Hollar's view of London ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/baynard-s-castle-wp/gcpv-baynards-castle-the-pembrokes-and-two-queens.mp3 0:06 6 full Baynard's Castle: What the Fire Took https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle/ Photo credit Public domain. The Great Fire of London in 1666 ended Baynard's Castle as it ended much of medieval London. The palace burned. Some fragments survived into the nineteenth century - one or possibly two towers stood until they were pulled down to make way for warehouses of the Carron Company; by ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/baynard-s-castle-wp/gcpv-baynards-castle-what-the-fire-took.mp3 0:06 7 full Baynard's Castle: Standing Where Kings Stood https://qualla.com/baynard-s-castle/ Photo credit Public domain. Today there is nothing visible above ground to tell you that two royal palaces and a Norman keep once occupied this corner of the City. The river itself has been pushed back, the Embankment built out into what used to be the Thames foreshore. Blackfriars station rises over the ri...

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