Kingsthorpe (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Kyngesthorp

In the civil parish of Northampton.
In the historic county of Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough.
Modern Authority of Northamptonshire.
1974 county of Northamptonshire.
Medieval County of Northamptonshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SP746631
Latitude 52.26115° Longitude -0.90738°

Kingsthorpe has been described as a probable Palace.

There are no visible remains.

Comments

Nothing in the VCH tenurial history suggests a royal residence here although there must have a steward house. A complaint was made in 1350 about various people breaking into queen's houses at Kyngesthorp which may have been the stewards house and/or the village houses of her tenants.
The manor house, be it an actual royal residence or a simple stewards house used by Henry I, could have been near to the parish church of St John the Baptist at SP746631.

Sources of information, references and further reading

Further information may be available from the holder of the county Historic Environment Record.

Books
- Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol. 2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p. 977
  Salzman, L.F., (ed), 1937, VCH Northamptonshire Vol. 4 p. 81-88 (tenurial history) online transcription
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Ingram, James, (ed) 1912, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Everyman Press, London) A Cottonian Fragment AD1114 view online transcription (Ingram's translation and notes date from 1823. More recent translations of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles should be consulted for serious study)
  Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1905, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1348-50) Vol. 8 p. online copy

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The bibliography owes much to various bibliographies produced by John Kenyon for the Council for British Archaeology, the Castle Studies Group and others.

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