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[[File:Naworth Castle - geograph.org.uk - 1485110.jpg|300px|thumb|Naworth Castle in 2009]]

 

==History==

Within a year of marrying the Duke of Norfolk, Elizabeth Dacre died in childbirth. The Duke then applied for wardship of his four Dacre stepchildren. Two years later, the young George Dacre died in an accident and, as a minor, was without issue. His inheritance, which included Naworth, was given to his sisters as co-heiresses to his estates. The girls’ stepfather, the Duke of Norfolk, then married two of the three Dacre heiresses (Anne and Elizabeth) to two of his sons – [[Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel|Philip Howard]] and [[Lord William Howard|William Howard]]. Mary Dacre was due to marry his other son, [[Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk|Thomas Howard]], however she died before any marriage could take place. Thus the [[Howard family|Howard name]] came into the Dacre family, along with the title of [[Earl of Carlisle]].

 

 

==Castle and gardens==

 

*The red bull – a heraldic supporter of Thomas, 2nd Lord Dacre. The bull holds a banner of Lord Dacre: Gules, three Escallops Argent. Dugdale claimed that this coat derived from an ancestor present at the siege of Acre in 1291 and the crusades to the Holy Land. One suggestion was that this was how the Dacre family got their surname - d'Acre.

*The black gryphon - represented Thomas’ ancestry including [[Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre]], who built Naworth in 1335 and also the Dacre ancestry going back to the beginning of the Norman period (the Dacre barony having originally derived from the de Vaux family, who came over to England with [[William the Conqueror]]). The gryphon holds a banner of : three cushions d'argent (three silver-coloured diamonds).

*The white ram - represented Ralph's wife, [[Margaret de Multon, 2nd Baroness Multon of Gilsland | Margaret de Moulton]], whom Dacre carried off from [[Warwick Castle]] where she was a ward of [[Edward II of England|Edward II]] and in the care of [[Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick|the Beauchamp family]]. The ram is the supporter of the de Moulton (or 'Mouton', French for sheep and hence the ram) coat of arms, which can be seen on the banner : shield and banner silver were, with three bars red.

On Saturday, 18 May 1844, the castle caught fire, possibly as a result of the ignition of some soot in the flue of the Porter's Lodge. The structure's lack of internal walls allowed the fire to spread rapidly, and it remained unchecked until it reached the northern wing. Although some property was saved, by the time two fire engines had arrived by train from Carlisle, most of the roof had collapsed and the fire had spread to nearly every room on the three sides of the quadrangle. Water had to be passed in buckets from a rivulet at the foot of a steep hill on the north side of the castle. "Belted Will's Tower" was saved, while the fire continued until around one o'clock on Sunday morning, when it was brought under control.<ref name=Whit>{{cite book|title=An Historical & Descriptive Account of Naworth Castle, and Lanercost Priory: With a Life of Lord William Howard, and an Account of the Destruction of Naworth Castle by Fire, May 18th, 1844|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HI4xAQAAMAAJ|year=1844|publisher=I. Fletcher Whitridge|page=vii-x1}}</ref> Subsequent restoration was undertaken by the architect [[Anthony Salvin]].<ref name=BWM />

 

 

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