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Welsh Castles of Edward I


Master Jacques de Saint-Georges called to England from Savoie where he had built castles for Counts Philippe and Pierre de Savoie, most notably Saint-Georges-d'Espéranche between 1268 and 1275 (now destroyed, known from a plan of 1794).  Payments to him in the capacity of mason, engineer, master of the works and stone cutter at Conway, Flint, Harlech, Maumaris, Rhuddlan and Caernarvon, are recorded in the royal accounts (King's Works):
1281: at Flint, as chief mason, 2 sous per day (the highest wage of any workman on the job).
1284: as Master of the king's Works in Wales: 3 sous per day and 900 livres for works done at Conway.
1290: as Governor of the Castle of Harlech: 4 sous per day.
A.J. Taylor, The castle of St-Geroges d'Espéranche,' The Antiquaries Journal, 1953, 33-57.
id., 'Master James of Saint-Georges,' The English Historical Review, 1950, 434.
id. 'Castle Building in the Thirtenth Century, Wales and Savoy,' The British Academy, London, 1978.



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CAERNARVON

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CONWAY

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HARLECH

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General View from south-west
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Preliminary Bibliography

Humphries, P. H.. Castles of Edward the First in Wales. London : H.M.S.O., 1983.  Number:   DA737 .H85 1983

Phillips, Alan.Caernarvon Castle, Castell Caernarfon, an illustrated souvenir. London : H.M. Stationery Off., c1961, 1970. LC Number: NA994.C12 P5

Platt, Colin. The Castle in Medieval England and Wales. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981. ISBN 0 76070 054 0

Taylor, A. J. (Arnold Joseph) Castell Caernarfon, Caernaryon Castle Cardiff, H.M.S.O. [for the Ministry of Public Building & Works] 1969. LC  Number: NA994.C12 T2c

Taylor, A. J. (Arnold Joseph) Caernarvon Castle and town walls,London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1953. LC Number NA994.C12 T2

Taylor, A. J. (Arnold Joseph) The Welsh castles of Edward I . London : Hambledon, 1986. LC Number: NA497 G7T39 1986

Thompson, Alexander Hamilton.  Military architecture in England during the middle ages, by A. Hamilton Thompson ... illustrated by 200 photographs,   drawings, and plans. London, New York [etc.] H. Frowde, 1912.  LC number NA963 .T46

Toy, Sidney.  Castles, a short history of fortifications from 1600 B.C. to A. D. 1600 London, Toronto, W. Heinemann, ltd. [1939]. LC Number:  NA490 .T75

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