William a Vanquisher gave Pleshey, witharound a parish of High Easter (southwest of Braintree) to Geoffrey de Mandeville in appreciation for his services; Mandeville was one of a battle commanders at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. On text, Mandeville built his caput (center of administration & independent front yard) of the numerous villages inside Essex given to him per king. Late, his grandson, a second Geoffrey was manufactured Earl of Essex by King Stephen. Pleshey Castle was originally the motte & bailey castle, which consisted of the wooden palasade & tower in the high human-semisynthetic hill (motte) surrounded per bailey (castle front yard or even ward), which at occasionally instance in the castle's early history was surrounded by the fosse. Late, probably in the 12th century, the motte was fortified using a castle of stone. A motte at Pleshey is okay, astir Xv meters high, & is one of a big mottes around England. Little remains of the castle now, apart from either its earthworks, however for an extended period it was an crucial place in the history of England. Across inheritance, Pleshey Castle became a independent castle of Henry de Bohun, & his married woman, Elizabeth, a girl of Edward I personally, King of England, in which a few of their youngsters were born. Between 1361 & 1384, the first state Bohun personal sent a class actiin of Augustinian mendicant to operate on delaware Bohun manuscripts at Pleshey Castle. On text it completed eleven books, one of the children the Psalter to celebrate Mary de Bohun's marriage to Henry Bolingbroke, a first Henry IV, King of England. A Mary de Bohun Psalter is nowadays in the Fitzwilliam Museum. At length, a castle passed (across marriage) to Thomas of Woodstock, immature boy of Edward III. His nephew, Richard II, umbrageous by his uncle's opposition, experienced him arrested at Pleshey & shipped to France. 2 years late a Duke of Exeter was taken to Pleshey Castle & executed for plotting against a king. Pleshey Castle's claim to fame includes Shakespeare's play "King Richard II" in whichA widow woman of Richard asks Edmund of York:

Hid him - O, what? By owning everthing skillful speed at Plashy [sic] visit maine. Alack, & what shall proficient old York there view, However empty lodgings & unfurnished bulwarks,