Elizabeth Castle [SEP] named after
Orgueil to Elizabeth Castle.
History 17th century.
Sir Walter Raleigh Governor of Jersey between 1600 and 1603, named the castle Elizabeth Castle after Elizabeth I of England.
History 17th century Lower Ward.
The Lower Ward was constructed, between 1626 and 1636, on the site of the ruined Abbey church. This area of the castle became a parade ground, surrounded by a barrack building and officers' quarters. Wells and cisterns for water existed within this area.
History 17th century English Civil War.
The castle was first used
Castle - on the banks of the River Avon. The castle had a round tower in each corner, and a park, fruit garden and kitchen garden.
Their children were:
1. Elizabeth Gorges (married, firstly, Sir Hugh Smythe of Long Ashton, Somerset and then colonial entrepreneur Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 28 Sep 1629, Wraxall, Somerset, England)
2. Francis Gorges
3. Frances Gorges (married Thomas Tyringham, circa 1610, Little Langford, Wiltshire, England)
4. Edward