Sir James Berkeley died and Elizabeth married for a second time to Sir William ap Thomas – and he’s responsible for the building as it stands today. The Bloets continued to hold Raglan until the fourteenth century at which point it was transmitted to the Berkeley family when Elizabeth Bloet ‘ The Lady of Raglan’ inherited her father’s estates.
The site was granted by Strongbow de Clare to his man Walter Bloet. Raglan in Gwent was, apparently, one of the last medieval castles to be constructed in England and Wales.
