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Pendennis Castle (Cornish: Penn Dinas, meaning "headland fortification") is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, England between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire , and defended the Carrick Roads waterway at the mouth of ...
The Governor of Pendennis Castle was a military officer who commanded the fortifications at Pendennis Castle, part of the defences of the River Fal and Carrick Roads, on the south coast of Cornwall near Falmouth. Originally fortified under Henry VIII, defences in the area were intermittently maintained until after the Second World War.
Canting arms of Arundell of Trerice: Sable, six martlets argent, alluding to the French hirondelle, a swallow. John Arundell (1576 – December 1654), [1] Esquire, of Trerice in Cornwall, later given the epithet "Jack for the King", was a member of an ancient Cornish gentry family, who as a Royalist during the Civil War served King Charles I as Governor of Pendennis Castle, Falmouth.
Sir John Killigrew (died 5 March 1584) of Arwenack, near Penryn, Cornwall, was the second Governor of Pendennis Castle (1568–1584), [1] appointed by Queen Elizabeth I, as stated on his father's brass in St Budock's Church. [2] He was MP for Lostwithiel in 1563 and twice for the family's pocket borough of Penryn, in 1571 and 1572. [3]
It serving at Devonport, Pendennis Castle and Pembroke Dock during the embodiment, which ended in December 1860. [101] [103] Thereafter the militia regiments were called out for their annual training, usually at a season when farm labourers (who made up the bulk of the infantry militia) could be spared from their work.
Jousting is a medieval and renaissance martial game or hastilude between two combatants either on horse or on foot. [1] The joust became an iconic characteristic of the knight in Romantic medievalism. The term is derived from Old French joster, ultimately from Latin iuxtare "to approach, to meet".
Pendennis Castle; Slanning was Governor 1635 to 1643 After returning to England, Slanning was knighted on 24 August 1632 at Nonsuch Palace . [ 5 ] He was appointed to the Commission for Piracy in Devon and Cornwall , Vice-Admiral of Cornwall and Governor of Pendennis Castle , a relatively modern fortification constructed by Henry VIII that ...
The Device Forts, also known as Henrician castles and blockhouses, were a series of artillery fortifications built to defend the coast of England and Wales by Henry VIII. [a] Traditionally, the Crown had left coastal defences in the hands of local lords and communities but the threat of French and Spanish invasion led the King to issue an order, called a "device", for a major programme of work ...