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Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset.Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates to the 11th century and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage.
Mary, Lady Bankes (née Hawtry; c. 1598 – 11 April 1661) was a Royalist who defended Corfe Castle from a three-year siege during the English Civil War from 1643 to 1645. She was married to Sir John Bankes, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Attorney-General of King Charles I.
Sir John Bankes, portrait by Gilbert Jackson. Lady Mary Bankes defended the castle during two sieges in the English Civil War.. Sir John Bankes (1589 – 28 December 1644) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1629. [1]
The Royalist stronghold Corfe Castle was destroyed in the English Civil War. Mary Bankes was a Royalist who defended Corfe Castle from a three-year siege inflicted by the parliamentarians. Portland Castle was captured by a group of Royalists who gained access by pretending to be Parliamentary soldiers. [4]
The back of Corfe Castle plus Oliver's Bistro in Corfe Castle Village are featured in the German TV thriller At the End of the Silence based on the novel by Charlotte Link. An episode of Mary Queen of Shops centred on Mary Portas revamping the village's convenience store. [28] Featured in the time-slip novel, The Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine.
They lived in Corfe Castle, until its destruction during the civil war. Sir Ralph Bankes (1631–1677) was the second son of Sir John and brother of Jerome and John. Upon his father and younger brother's deaths, the estate passed to him. He was responsible for the building of the new family seat at Kingston Lacy.
In the 17th-century English Civil War Dorset had a number of royalist strongholds, such as Sherborne Castle and Corfe Castle, which were ruined in the war. The 1642 Battle of Babylon Hill was indecisive.
Maud and William were first imprisoned at Windsor Castle, but were shortly afterwards transferred to Corfe Castle in Dorset where they were placed inside the dungeon. The contemporaneous History of the Dukes of Normandy and Kings of England claims Maud and William both starved to death. [15]