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The feudal barony of Caus was a feudal barony with its caput at Caus Castle in, Shropshire, England. There was once an associated borough or town which built up around the castle but this has long since been abandoned. The castle was destroyed during the English Civil War and little remains today.

The castle was built by the Anglo-Norman Corbet family in the 11th century on the site of an earlier Iron Age fort. The first known members of the Corbet family in England are Roger and Richard Fitz Corbet who were supposedly the two sons of a Corbet who had served with William the Conqueror in his conquest of England in 1066. This theory is supported by the fact that both were in possession of significant fiefs by the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. The 11th century historian Orderic Vitalis mentions the elder Corbet and his two sons Roger and Richard as amongst the vassals of the Earl of Shrewsbury Roger de Montgomery. Roger was seemingly the elder of the two sons as his fief was significantly more extensive and it is he who is believed to have been the first of the barons of Caus. The Corbets were amongst the early marcher lords tasked with the defence of the Welsh Marches (England's border with Wales).