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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.
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 .
In March 1649, after the third siege, Pontefract inhabitants, fearing a fourth, petitioned Parliament for the castle to be slighted. [20] The castle was a magnet for trouble, [20] and demolition began in April 1649. [20] The castle ruins are publicly accessible.
Cromwell reinforced the besiegers at Pontefract so that the Parliamentarians now had five thousand men and Sir Edward's squadrons besieging the castle. That the siege of Pontefract Castle was ineffective was highlighted when on 31 October Colonel Thomas Rainsborough was killed at Doncaster, by a party of Cavaliers who sallied out of Pontefract ...
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]
Overton was acting governor during the siege of Pontefract Castle; it was reported that he was inconsiderate to Lady Cutler and refused to let Sir Gervaise Cutler be buried in the church. [ 7 ] Having gained a commission in the New Model Army in July 1647, he was given command of the late Colonel Herbert's Regiment of Foot.
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 ...