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Kenilworth Castle is a castle in the town of Kenilworth in Warwickshire, England, managed by English Heritage; much of it is in ruins. The castle was founded after the Norman Conquest of 1066; with development through to the Tudor period .
The Two Castles Run began in 1983 as a fun run between Warwick Castle and Kenilworth Castle. [61] It has grown into an English Athletics-licensed run with 3,000 entrants in 2010. [62] In 2010 and 2011 it held the Warwickshire Amateur Athletic Association 10 Kilometre Championship. In 2012 all 4,000 places were sold within 25 hours.
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.
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. Baron Kenilworth, of Kenilworth in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the motor industry magnate Sir John Siddeley. His grandson, the third Baron, was an interior designer and the founder of John Siddeley International Ltd.
Subsequently, the royal army besieged Kenilworth Castle, [46] with Edmund commanding one of the four divisions alongside Henry and Edward. [46] [47] [48] The siege concluded on 13 December with the implementation of the Dictum of Kenilworth, which brought peace between the king and the baronial forces by 31 October. [46] [47] [48] Either in the ...
Kenilworth. A Romance is a historical romance novel by Sir Walter Scott , one of the Waverley novels , first published on 13 January 1821. Set in 1575, it leads up to the elaborate reception of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle by the Earl of Leicester , who is complicit in the murder of his wife Amy Robsart at Cumnor .
A plan of Kenilworth Castle shortly before the English Civil War by Wenceslas Hollar. The tiltyard is the large rectangle on the south east corner of the plan. A tiltyard (or tilt yard or tilt-yard) was an enclosed courtyard for jousting. Tiltyards were a common feature of Tudor era castles and palaces.