What is recorded here

Hawarden Castle stands in Flintshire as a medieval ruin marked in the national record, though local memory reaches further back. In 1460 a frightened queen fled north with only four people, including a fourteen-year-old boy named Jon Combe, and found shelter there before disappearing into private rooms elsewhere. The castle may have given her a night of safety, a cup of warmth and a place to breathe before the danger changed shape again.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Hawarden Castle as Castle from the Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Hawarden Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Montalt family, later held by the Earls of Chester. It is important as a well-preserved example of a medieval Welsh Marches castle and as the family seat of the Earls of Powis.

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