1066 Sudeley recorded in Domesday Book; held by the de Sudeley family.

1367 Sudley acquired by William Boteler of Wem, Shropshire, via marriage to Margery, sister and heir of John de Sudeley.

1442 Sudeley Castle rebuilt by William's nephew and heir Ralph Boteler, 7th Baron Sudeley, as a double courtyard surrounded by a moat. Leland noted: 'There had been a manor place at Sudeley before the building of the castle, and the plot is yet seen in Sudeley park where it stood' (1: 56).

1458 Boteler receives a pardon for crenellating, without licence, Sudeley Manor and More Manor, Hertfordshire. [CP]

1469 Boteler, a Lancastrian, sells Castle to Edward IV, under compulsion. Edward grants Sudeley to Richard, Duke of Gloucester. During Richard's ownership the E range was replaced with a Banqueting Hall and a suite of adjoining rooms

ca. 1477 Gloucester exchanges Sudeley with the Crown for Richmond Castle, Yorkshire.

1486 Henry VII gave Sudeley to his uncle, Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford. It reverted again to the crown upon Bedford's death in 1495.

1535 Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn visited the Castle, by which time it had fallen into neglect. Leland noted soon after: 'Now it goeth to ruin, more pity' (2: 56).

1547--8 Edward VI gave the Castle to his uncle Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and his wife, Katharine Parr, who undertook restorations. Katherine died at Sudeley in 1548 and Seymour was attainted and executed in 1548/9.

1550 Sudeley Castle granted to William Parr, Marquess of Northampton, but forfeited 1553.

1554, Sudley given to John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos of Sudeley, by Queen Mary. His son Edward made extensive alterations and additions, ca 1570.