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Painting in Pontefract Museum of Pontefract Castle in the early 17th century, by Alexander Keirincx 53°41′44″N 1°18′14″W / 53.69556°N 1.30389°W / 53.69556; -1.30389 Pontefract (or Pomfret ) Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract , in West Yorkshire , En
Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably derives more from the Renaissance period. [citation needed] An oubliette (from the French oublier, meaning 'to forget') or bottle dungeon is a basement room which is accessible only from a hatch or hole (an angstloch) in a high ceiling.
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.
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 ...
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.
Edward, Prince of Wales, kneeling before his father, King Edward III. Richard of Bordeaux was the younger son of Edward, Prince of Wales, and Joan, Countess of Kent.Edward, eldest son of Edward III and heir apparent to the throne of England, had distinguished himself as a military commander in the early phases of the Hundred Years' War, particularly in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
Edmund was the son and heir of John de Lacy, jure uxoris Earl of Lincoln (c. 1192–1240) 8th Baron of Halton, 8th Hereditary Constable of Chester, and feudal baron of Pontefract. [1] His father was one of the 25 barons who forced John, King of England to sign Magna Carta in 1215.
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]