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The surviving Norman gateway of Rougemont Castle, built shortly after the siege. William ordered the construction of a stone castle to dominate Exeter and Rougemont Castle was built inside the northeast of the city wall. William's unusual generosity of terms at Exeter may have been due to the need to bring the West Country under his control. [8]
The Mercian Siege of Exeter (c. 630), also known as the Siege of Caer-Uisc. Almost certainly fictional. The Danish Siege of Exeter (893) The Siege of Exeter (1068), during the Norman Conquest of England; The Siege of Exeter (1549) which took place during the Prayer Book Rebellion; One of the sieges of Exeter that took place during the First ...
The heathen Penda besieges Exeter in the year 634, and the siege is raised by the Briton Cadwalla. If this story is worth anything, it simply points to Caerwisc as being still a British city in the second quarter of the seventh century.
A map of Exeter in the time of Hooker, with his quartered arms at bottom left. During the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549 Hooker experienced at first hand the siege of Exeter, and left a vivid manuscript account of its events in which he made no effort to conceal his anti-Catholic sympathies. [8]
Colonel Ruthven, however, had anticipated that Exeter would be sieged and reinforced Exeter beforehand. As such, the Parliamentarians rejected the call to surrender. Surprisingly, it was the Royalists who could not sustain the siege. Reportedly after less than a fortnight, Hopton found that his troops were short of supplies and threatening to ...
Rougemont Castle, also known as Exeter Castle, is the historic castle of the city of Exeter, Devon, England. It was built into the northern corner of the Roman city walls starting in or shortly after the year 1068, following Exeter's rebellion against William the Conqueror. In 1136 it was besieged for three months by King Stephen.
In 1001, Vikings laid siege to Exeter, but due to the strong fortifications built during Athelstan's reign they could not break through. They then started pillaging nearby villages, and were met at Pinhoe by an army from the shires of Devon and Somerset. The battle was hard and the defenders nearly used up all their ammunition.
Humphrey Arundell (c. 1513 – 27 January 1550) of Helland in Cornwall, was the leader of Cornish forces in the Prayer Book Rebellion early in the reign of King Edward VI. He was executed at Tyburn, London after the rebellion had been defeated.