Beaumont Palace

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Beaumont Palace in 1785 Beaumont palace 1785.jpg
Beaumont Palace in 1785
1800 sketch of the ruins, showing the inside of the forebuilding above Beaumont palace jewitt.jpg
1800 sketch of the ruins, showing the inside of the forebuilding above
The plaque on Beaumont Street near the site of Beaumont Palace Beaumont Palace plaque.jpg
The plaque on Beaumont Street near the site of Beaumont Palace

Beaumont Palace, built outside the north gate of Oxford, was intended by Henry I about 1130 to serve as a royal palace conveniently close to the royal hunting-lodge at Woodstock (now part of the park of Blenheim Palace). Its former presence is recorded in Beaumont Street, Oxford. Set into a pillar on the north side of the street, near Walton Street, is a stone with the inscription: "Near to this site stood the King's Houses later known as Beaumont Palace. King Richard I was born here in 1157 and King John in 1166". The "King's House" was the range of the palace that contained the king's lodgings.

Henry spent Easter 1133 in the nova aula – his "new hall" at Beaumont – in great pomp, celebrating the birth of his grandson, the future Henry II. [1] Edward I was the last king to sojourn in Beaumont officially as a palace, and in 1275 he granted it to an Italian lawyer, Francesco Accorsi, who had undertaken diplomatic missions for him. [2] When Edward II was put to flight at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, he is said to have invoked the Virgin Mary and vowed to found a monastery for the Carmelites (the White Friars) if he might escape safely. In fulfilment of his vow he remanded Beaumont Palace to the Carmelites in 1318.

In 1318, the Palace was the scene for the beginnings of the John Deydras affair, in which a royal pretender, arguing that he was the rightful king of England, claimed the Palace for his own. John Deydras was ultimately executed for sedition. [3]

When the White Friars were disbanded at the Reformation, most of the structure was dismantled and the building stone reused in Christ Church and St John's College. [4] An engraving of 1785 [5] shows the remains of Beaumont Palace, the last of which were destroyed in the laying out of Beaumont Street in 1829. [6]

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References

  1. Henry of Huntington (Thomas Arnold, ed.) Historia Anglorum 1879:259; H. Hughes, Gladstone, Christ Church, and Oxford, an historic local retrospect, 1898:5.
  2. Oxford Streets: Inscriptions, Beaumont Palace Site: accessed 9 October 2013.
  3. Weir, Alison. (2006) Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England. London: Pimlico, p.117.
  4. "The ruins were rifled by St John's College in the sixteenth century to build its library" observes David Horan, Oxford: a cultural and literary companion :2000:186.
  5. Published by S. Hooper, engraved by Sparrow.
  6. Hughes 1898:18.

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