Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Nicholas

Last Name:

Kemeys

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Other

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1935

Inscription:

ON THE 25TH DAY OF MAY 1648
NEAR THIS SPOT WAS SLAIN
SIR NICHOLAS KEMEYS
KNIGHT AND BARONET OF
CEFN MABLY AND LLANVAIR ISCOED
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT AND
HIGH SHERIFF FOR THE COUNTIES
OF MONMOUTH AND GLAMORGAN
WHIST DEFENDING THIS CASTLE
FOR KING CHARLES THE FIRST
AGAINST THE FORCES OF
OLIVER CROMWELL

ERECTED BY MEMBERS
OF THE KEMEYS FAMILY 1935

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

See:
https://biography.wales/article/s-KEME-CEF-1234
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kemeys#/media/File:Chepstow_Castle_-_Sir_Nicholas_Kemeys_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_206177.jpg
Gaunt, Peter 1991 A Nation Under Siege: The Civil War in Wales 1642-48. London, HMSO, p.71
Morgan, Dafydd 1881 (2009 paperback) An Epic Poem On Sir Nicholas Kemeys, The Captor And Defender Of Chepstow Castle.
Newman, P.R. 1981 Royalist Officers in England and Wales, 1642-1660: A Biographical Dictionary, New York & London, Garland Publishing Inc., pp. 213-214, no.823