Beaumont Palace

Beaumont Palace in 1785 1800's Aim of the Ruins Beaumont Palace, in Oxford, was a formerly completely disappeared royal palace built by Henry I near 1130 to house a royal palace near the royal hunting lodge at Woodstock (which is now part of the Blenheim Palace Park). On Beaumont Street in Oxford, it is noted on a stone set on a pillar on the north side of it, near Walton Street, which bears the following inscription: Near this place stood the house of the king in which the king Ricardo I was born on September 8, 1157. The "House of the King" was the rank of the palace containing the king's lodgings.

When Edward II fought at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, he claimed to have invoked the Virgin Mary and promised to found a monastery for the Carmelites to escape safely. In fulfillment of this vow, he transferred Beaumont's palace to the Carmelites in 1318. When this religious order was dispersed in the Protestant Reformation, most of the building was dismantled and the stone was reused in the Church of Christ of Oxford and at the University of San Juan in the same city. The last remains of the Beaumont Palace were eliminated in the layout of Beaumont Street in the 1820s.

Coordinates: 51 ° 45'18 "N 1 ° 15'46" W / 51.7550, -1.2627

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