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Kenilworth Castle was founded in the early 1120s by Geoffrey de Clinton, Lord Chamberlain to Henry I.
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Kenilworth and Castle
A group of rebels held out in the stronghold of Kenilworth Castle, however, and their resistance proved hard to crush.
Part of the rebellious forces held out, however, and their stronghold was the virtually impregnable Kenilworth Castle.
The same was the case for Henry de Hastings, who was the commander of Kenilworth Castle.
Kenilworth Castle is located in the town of the same name in Warwickshire, England.
Wenceslaus Hollar's 1649 plan of Kenilworth Castle.
The outer bailey of Kenilworth Castle is usually entered through Mortimer's Tower, today a modest ruin but originally a Norman stone gatehouse, extended in the late 13th and 16th centuries.
Much of the right-hand court of Kenilworth Castle is occupied by the castle garden.
By this point Kenilworth Castle consisted of the great keep, the inner bailey wall, a basic causeway across the smaller lake that preceded the creation of the Great Mere, and the local chase for hunting.
John spent £ 1, 115 on Kenilworth Castle between 1210 and 1216, building the outer bailey wall in stone and improving the other defences, including creating Mortimer's and Lunn's Towers.
Kenilworth Castle seen from the west ; by the 13th century, the foreground would have been occupied by the water defences of the Great Mere.
The Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266 was " probably the longest in English history " according to historian Norman Pounds, and at the time was also the largest siege to have occurred in England in terms of the number of soldiers involved.
Five months later this had not happened, and Henry III laid siege to Kenilworth Castle on 21 June.
A reconstruction of Kenilworth Castle, as it would have appeared around 1575 – 80.
Margaret removed Henry from London in 1456 for his own safety and until 1461, Henry's court divided almost all its time among Kenilworth, Leicester and Tutbury Castle for the purposes of protection.
Kenilworth Castle was valued at £ 10, 401 in 1588, when Leicester died without legitimate issue and heavily in debt.
Dudley went to Italy in 1605, and during 1611 – 12 arranged to sell Kenilworth Castle to Henry, the Prince of Wales.
Kenilworth Castle in 1799, by Maria Johnson
The first guidebook to the castle, A Concise history and description of Kenilworth Castle, was printed in 1777 with many later editions following in the coming decades.
Although considered today as a less successful literary novel than some of his other historical works, it popularised Kenilworth Castle in the Victorian imagination as a romantic Elizabethan location.
* Morris, Richard K. ( 2007 ) " A plan for Kenilworth Castle at Longleat ," English Heritage Historical Review, 2 ( 2007 ).
* Morris, Richard K. ( 2010 ) Kenilworth Castle.
( 1825 ) A Concise History and Description of Kenilworth Castle: From its Foundation to the Present Time, 16th edition.
* Thompson, M. W. ( 1965 ) " Two levels of the mere at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire ," in The Society of Medieval Archaeology Journal, 9 ( 1965 ).
* Thompson, M. W. ( 1977 ) " Three stages in the construction of the hall at Kenilworth Castle ," in Apted, Gilyard-Beer and Saunders ( eds ) 1977.
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The Dictum of Kenilworth, issued 31 October 1266, was a pronouncement designed to reconcile the rebels of the Barons ' War with the royal government of England.
The Dictum of Kenilworth was later incorporated into the Statute of Marlborough.
In August, the king summoned a parliament at Kenilworth, where the siege was ongoing.
The result, known as the Dictum of Kenilworth, was made public on 31 October 1266.
The libretto of this opera by Giovanni Schmidt was in many of its incidents an anticipation of those presented to the world a few years later in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth.
The castle was the subject of the six-month long Siege of Kenilworth in 1266, believed to be the longest siege in English history, and formed a base for Lancastrian operations in the War of the Roses.
Kenilworth was also the scene of the removal of Edward II from the English throne, the French insult to Henry V in 1414 ( said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign ), and the Earl of Leicester's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575.
Kenilworth was partly destroyed by Parliamentary forces in 1649 to prevent it being used as a military stronghold.
The conflict spread across England and Kenilworth was garrisoned by Henry II's forces ; Geoffrey II de Clinton died in this period and the castle was taken fully into royal possession, a sign of its military importance.
The result was to turn Kenilworth into one of the largest English castles of the time, with one of the largest artificial lake defences in England.
Edward was taken back to Kenilworth, where chroniclers considered he was held in unduly harsh conditions.
Henry, reoccupying most of the Lancaster lands, was made constable of Kenilworth and Edward was transported there in late 1326 ; Henry's legal title to the castle was finally confirmed the following year.
Kenilworth was chosen for this purpose by Isabella probably both because it was a major fortification, and also because of the symbolism of its former owners ' links to popular ideals of freedom and good government.
A deputation of leading barons led by Bishop Orleton was then sent to Kenilworth to first persuade Edward to resign and, when that failed, to inform him that he had been deposed as king.
Kenilworth and founded
The Priory Theatre was founded in 1932 as the Kenilworth Players.
The lands he was given included Kenilworth – a castle of comparative size, cost, and importance, founded by Clinton – which is about to the north.
** Kenilworth Castle, a castle around which Kenilworth town was founded
A small priory was founded at Brooke for Austin Canons, as a cell of St Mary's Abbey, Kenilworth, apparently during the third quarter of the 12th century.
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