Denbigh

Denbigh was a marcher lordship in north Wales, centred on the castle and walled town built for Henry de Lacy after Edward I’s conquest. William Montagu held it in 1337.

The Mortimers recovered the lordship in 1355, but Owain Glyndwr’s rebels sacked the town in 1400. It passed to Richard, Duke of York, in 1425; the town later burned during the Wars of the Roses. Parliament’s forces took Denbigh in 1646 during the English Civil War, and the castle was subsequently dismantled.