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The Votadini or Gododdin are thought to have been the first to defend this site as its original Brythonic name, dyn barr, means 'the fort of the point'.By the 7th century, Dunbar Castle was a central defensive position of the Kings of Bernicia, an Anglian kingdom that took over from the British Kingdom of Bryneich.
The Dunbar defenders sent messages to John, who caught up with the main body of the Scottish army at Haddington, requesting urgent assistance. In response the Scots army, advanced to the rescue of Dunbar Castle. [11] John did not accompany the army. The two armies came met each other on 27 April and gave battle, near Dunbar. The Scots occupied ...
The battle of Dunbar effectively ended the war of 1296 with an English victory. The remainder of the campaign was little more than a grand mopping-up operation. James , the hereditary High Steward of Scotland , surrendered the important fortress at Roxburgh without attempting a defence, and others were quick to follow his example.
While "Black Agnes", Countess-consort Dunbar and March, continued to resist the English laying siege to Dunbar Castle, hurling defiance and abuse from the walls, Scotland received some breathing space when Edward III claimed the French throne and took his army to Flanders, beginning the Hundred Years' War with France.
Dunbar castle was then held of the King by Angus and Sir Adam Hepburn of Hailes. Dunbar fled to England calling for help in regaining Dunbar castle by force of arms. This help materialised in the spring of 1435 when Sir Robert Ogle , the Governor of Berwick upon Tweed , with Henry Percy and 4000 men marched north to retake the Castle.
The failed siege of Dunbar had cost the English crown nearly 6,000 English [citation needed] pounds and the English had gained nothing from it. [8] For centuries afterwards, Agnes Randolph's defence of Dunbar Castle caught the attention of contemporary chroniclers and Scottish historians due to her bravery and might. [2]
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Dunbar (/ d ʌ n ˈ b ɑːr / ⓘ) is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately 30 miles (50 kilometres) east of Edinburgh and 30 mi (50 km) from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ecclesiastical and civil parish.