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A plan of Corfe Castle from 1586, drawn up by Ralph Treswell. Corfe Castle is roughly triangular and divided into three parts, known as enclosures or wards. [50] Enclosed in the 11th century, the inner ward contained the castle's keep, also known as a donjon or great tower, which was built partly on the enclosure's curtain wall. It is uncertain ...
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.
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]
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.
Kingston Lacy is a country house and estate near Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.It was for many years the family seat of the Bankes family who lived nearby at Corfe Castle until its destruction in the English Civil War after its incumbent owners, Sir John Bankes and Dame Mary, had remained loyal to Charles I.
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.
The contemporaneous History of the Dukes of Normandy and Kings of England claims Maud and William both starved to death. [15] It is also said that John had her with her son imprisoned at Corfe Castle and ordered that a sheaf of oats and one piece of raw bacon be given to them. He did not allow them to have any more food.
Sir John Bankes bought the castle in 1635 and was the owner during the English Civil War. His wife, Lady Mary Bankes, led the defence of the castle when it was twice besieged by Parliamentarian forces. The first siege, in 1643, was unsuccessful, but by 1645 Corfe was one of the last remaining royalist strongholds in southern England and fell to ...