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Kenilworth remained a ruin during the 18th and 19th centuries, still used as a farm but increasingly also popular as a tourist attraction. The first guidebook to the castle, A Concise history and description of Kenilworth Castle, was printed in 1777 with many later editions following in the coming decades.
The siege of Kenilworth (21 June – December 1266), also known as the great siege of 1266, was a six-month siege of Kenilworth Castle and a battle of the Second Barons' War. The siege was a part of an English civil war fought from 1264 to 1267 by the forces of Simon de Montfort against the Royalist forces led by Prince Edward (later Edward I ...
Kenilworth Castle The ruins of the gatehouse of Kenilworth Abbey. A settlement existed at Kenilworth by the time of the 1086 Domesday Book, which records it as Chinewrde. [2] Geoffrey de Clinton (died 1134) initiated the building of an Augustinian priory in 1122, [3] which coincided with his initiation of Kenilworth Castle. [4]
The Princely Pleasures, at the Court at Kenilworth (1576) by George Gascoigne, is an account of courtly entertainments held by Robert Dudley, the first Earl of Leicester upon Queen Elizabeth I’s three weeks visit to his Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire in 1575.
13 October – Dictum of Kenilworth provides terms of peace in the Second Barons' War between supporters of the slain rebel leader Simon de Montfort and Henry III. [3] 13 December – Siege of Kenilworth: Forces under Henry III capture Kenilworth Castle from remaining rebels in the Second Barons' War after a 6-month siege. [1]
Kenilworth's new Castle Farm Recreation Centre is to open after the former building was demolished.
The Dictum of Kenilworth (Latin: Dictum de Kenilworth), issued on 31 October 1266, was a pronouncement designed to reconcile the rebels of the Second Barons' War with the royal government of England. After the baronial victory at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, Simon de Montfort took control of royal government, but at the Battle of Evesham the ...
1266 – 31 October – Henry issues the Dictum of Kenilworth, offering terms to repentant rebels. 1266 – 14 December – The rebels at Kenilworth Castle surrender. 1267 – May – Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, seizes London. 1267 – June – King Henry and Gilbert de Clare agree more lenient terms of submission for rebels.