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Parliament garrisoned the castle until June 1648 when Royalists sneaked into the castle and took control. Pontefract Castle was an important base for the Royalists, and raiding parties harried Parliamentarians in the area. [12] Oliver Cromwell led the final siege of Pontefract Castle in November 1648.
Pontefract Castle began as a wooden motte and bailey castle before 1086 and was later rebuilt in stone. The de Lacys lived there for more than two centuries [12] and were holders of the castle and the Honour of Pontefract from 1067 [13] until the death of Alice de Lacy in 1348. [14] King Richard II was murdered at the castle in 1400.
Roger's great-great-grandfather, Robert de Lacy, had failed to support King Henry I during his power struggle with his brother and the king had confiscated Pontefract Castle from the family earlier in the 12th century; [3] Roger paid King Richard I 3,000 marks for the Honour of Pontefract, though the king retained possession of the castle itself.
Siege of Pontefract Castle Thomas Rainsborough , or Rainborowe , 6 July 1610 to 29 October 1648, was an English religious and political radical who served in the Parliamentarian navy and New Model Army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms .
Reconstruction of Pontefract Castle. Almost the only place which seemed for a time to hold out against the insurgents was Pontefract Castle, of which Darcy held the command. Thither fled Archbishop Lee of York, who put himself under Darcy's protection with some of the neighbouring gentry. But Darcy, pretending that his provisions had run short ...
Ruins of Pontefract Castle, where Robert Waterton was Constable. Like his uncle Sir Hugh Waterton, he entered the service of Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV.In 1391 he was appointed Master Forester at Pontefract Castle, and in that year accompanied Bolingbroke to the siege of Vilnius. [5]
In the siege by Parliamentarians, the church suffered extensive damage with 60 18lb cannonballs being fired in one day from Monkhill. In June 1645, the church now under the occupation of Parliamentarians was besieged by Royalists who occupied Pontefract Castle. In defending the church the Parliamentarians made defenses within the already ruined ...
Castilian, so named because he was born during the siege of Pontefract Castle, was appointed town clerk of Leeds in 1684. Some extracts from his diary were printed in the Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal (x. 159). Margery appears to have died in childbirth, giving birth to Morris Buckley the son of Jonas Buckley. [5]