This castle in Herefordshire,[1] still standing mostly to battlement height, remains a monument to its former lords.

The Longchamps of Wilton in their time provided Bailiffs of Normandy, Chancellors of England, sheriffs of Hereford and the Welsh Marches and enemies of King John.

Matilda de Grey, née de Cantilupe, declared untruthfully in court in 1292 to King Edward I of England that the castle had been built by her Longchamp ancestors in the days of Edward the Confessor (1042–66).

In fact, the castle could not have been built before 1154 and certainly the 'barony' never held the Marcher Lord rights Lady Matilda claimed for it.

The castle was primarily associated with a branch of the Norman-descended family of Grey, the Barons Grey of Wilton, a prominent dynasty of Norman Marcher Lords in the Welsh Marches, who held it from 1308 or before.