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TUTTLINGEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 489 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUTTLINGEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Danube, which is here crossed by a See also:bridge, 37, M. by See also:rail N.E. of See also:Schaffhausen, and at the The See also:early See also:history of See also:Tutbury (Toteberie, Stutesbury, Tuttebiri, Tudbury) is very obscure. It is said to have been a seat of the Mercian See also:kings. After the See also:Conquest it was granted to See also:Hugh d'See also:Avranches, who appears to have built the first See also:castle there. At the See also:time of the Domesday Survey the castle was held by See also:Henry de See also:Ferrers, and " in the See also:borough See also:round it were 42 men living by their merchandize alone." Tutbury was the centre of an See also:honour in See also:Norman times, but the town remained small and unimportant, the castle and town continuing in the hands of the Ferrers until 1266, when, owing to See also:Robert de Ferrers's participation in the barons' revolt, they were forfeited to the See also:Crown and granted to See also:Edmund Crouchback, See also:earl of See also:Lancaster. They are still See also:part of the duchy of Lancaster. Tutbury Castle was partially rebuilt by See also:John of Gaunt, whose wife, See also:Constance of See also:Castile, kept her See also:court there. Later it was, for a time, the See also:prison of See also:Mary See also:Queen of Scots. During the See also:Civil See also:War it was held for the See also:king but surrendered to the See also:parliamentary forces (1646), and was reduced to ruins by See also:order of See also:parliament (1647). See also:Richard III. granted to the inhabitants of Tutbury two fairs, to be held respectively on St Katherine's See also:day and the feast of the Invention of the See also:Cross; the See also:fair on the 15th of See also:August was famous until the end of the 18th See also:century for its See also:bull See also:coursing, said to have been originally introduced by John of Gaunt. In 1831 a large treasure of See also:English See also:silver coins of the 13th and 14th centuries was discovered in the See also:bed of the See also:river, and a See also:series was placed in the See also:British Museum. This treasure was believed to have been lost by See also:Thomas, the rebellious earl of Lancaster, who was driven from Tutbury Castle by See also:Edward II. junction of lines to See also:Stuttgart and See also:Ulm.

Pop. (1905), 14,627. The town is overlooked by the ruins of the castle of Honberg, which was destroyed during the See also:

Thirty Years' War, and has an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, several See also:schools, and a See also:monument to Max Schneckenburger (1819–1849), the author of See also:Die Wacht am Rhein. Its See also:chief manufactures are shoes, See also:cutlery, surgical See also:instruments and woollen goods, and it has a See also:trade in See also:fruit and See also:grain. Tuttlingen is a very See also:ancient See also:place, and is chiefly memorable for the victory gained here on the 24th of See also:November 1643 by the Austrians and Bavarians over the See also:French. It was almost totally destroyed by See also:fire in 1803. It has belonged to Wurttemberg since 1404.

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