The Gatehouse website record for House of Baldwin Tyrel

In the historic county of Cornwall (Modern Authority of Cornwall, 1974 county of Cornwall).

During a trial, in 1212, of Baldwin Tyrel, a tenant of Alan de Dunstanville, a royal household knight, was accused of saying the King was dead. He is reported as barricading the house (domum castellatam et briaschiatam) against Alan's steward and two other of his men. The case was heard in the hundred courts of Truro and St. Austell but referred to the King. In the royal courts the steward gave evidence that the house was not castellated or bratticed, but merely barred.
Renn records this a possible castle in the St Austell/Truro region. Suggesting bolting the door against three men (who would have been armed but probably not armoured - and who went to court, not to battle) as a 'fortified house' seems to be pushing the definition of fortified to an extreme. I'm not sure of the social status of Baldwin but this may have been little more than strongly built peasant house described in fanciful language by men who had failed to gain entry.
Holt calls Baldwin an unimportant Cornish Tenant. He writes "I have been unable to trace where Baldwin Tyrel's estates lay. It may be relevant that Robert fitz Walter [another household knight involved in the trial] held fees along the Fowey estuary."

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