Kettlethorpe Hotel Wakefield

at , Wakefield , WF2 7 United Kingdom

1. Bar
2. Local Business

<p><b>Kettlethorpe Hall</b>, in <a href="/pages/w/158908694186384">Kettlethorpe</a>, <a href="/pages/w/113204542027320">Lincolnshire</a>, noted for its connection to <a href="/pages/w/139389022745466">Katherine Swynford</a>, is a modest Victorian house, enclosing fragments of the former <a href="/pages/w/479548635406369">manor house</a> including the <a href="/pages/w/112881918721968">gatehouse</a>, within the surviving <a href="/pages/w/109327672420322">moat</a>. This moat and its cleaning was one of the egregious examples of MPs' expenses claims which aroused public ire during 2009 and contributed to the retirement of its owner, <a href="/pages/w/106136719416778">Douglas Hogg</a>, from the House of Commons.</p><p>Sir Hugh Swynford (died in 1371) married Katherine Roelt, whose sister is believed to have been the wife of <a href="/pages/w/107933635901914">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>. Lady Katherine became governess to the children of <a href="/pages/w/107029096001707">John of Gaunt</a>, son of <a href="/pages/w/119403848105221">Edward III</a>. Her four children by Gaunt, the <a href="/pages/w/143437769007054">Beauforts</a>, were eventually legitimized when Lady Katherin married John of Gaunt as his third wife, in 1396.</p>

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Kettlethorpe Hotel Wakefield is Wakefield based place and this enity listed in Bar category. WF2 7.