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This is one of the coolest castles I've been to. A great hulking mass of red stone, it looks like it was hewn from a mountain by god as a practice run for some grander scheme. Towering ruins with crows circling the ramparts. It was raining when we visited, a melancholy old drizzle. The history of the castle is full of tradition, romance and war, exactly what castles are supposed to be all about. King Edward kept a band of a thousand odd rebel barons under seige behind the walls for six months, raining fire and arrows on the castle day and night, before finally they gave in, starving, in exchange for royal pardons. Queen Elizabeth the first paid a royal visit and there was music and fireworks on the lake surrounding the castle every night. The grand hall was the site of many a great feast with roaring fires in the twin hearths at opposite sides of the hall. This pic shows a room slightly below ground level lit by windows high in the walls, I'm not sure what it was for.
[edit] shit it was King Henry III -- never was any good at history
Here's some stuff I found on the web, for the sake of interest and historical accuracy.
The 1266 siege of Kenilworth Castle is one of the most notable events in its history. Simon de Montfort had become a leading rebel against King Henry III and the Barons' War was waged between 1263 and 1267 in an attempt to curb Henry's abuse of power. Simon de Montfort was killed in battle at nearby Evesham on August 4th 1265, and in the summer of 1266, his fellow nobles, under the leadership of Henry de Hastings, used the castle as a refuge when the King surrounded Kenilworth.
The ensuing siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266 is the longest in English history, and demonstrated the strength of the fortifications against siege machines like the Balista brought in from London. Barges were even brought from Chester in an attempt to enter the castle across the meer.
Kenilworth Castle, The Midlands, England, October 2002
Canon EOS 300, Fuji Neopan 400, tripod, spot metered
Constructive criticism welcome as usual
[edit] shit it was King Henry III -- never was any good at history
Here's some stuff I found on the web, for the sake of interest and historical accuracy.The 1266 siege of Kenilworth Castle is one of the most notable events in its history. Simon de Montfort had become a leading rebel against King Henry III and the Barons' War was waged between 1263 and 1267 in an attempt to curb Henry's abuse of power. Simon de Montfort was killed in battle at nearby Evesham on August 4th 1265, and in the summer of 1266, his fellow nobles, under the leadership of Henry de Hastings, used the castle as a refuge when the King surrounded Kenilworth.
The ensuing siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266 is the longest in English history, and demonstrated the strength of the fortifications against siege machines like the Balista brought in from London. Barges were even brought from Chester in an attempt to enter the castle across the meer.
Kenilworth Castle, The Midlands, England, October 2002
Canon EOS 300, Fuji Neopan 400, tripod, spot metered
Constructive criticism welcome as usual
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Hi. I live in Kenilworth, and I love sitting and drawing the castle. The feast hall is amazing, isn't it? Me and my friends actually did a little film thing where I was an evil sorceress and my friend was a pitiful innocent prisoner (with a more indepth story line than that) and we were using the next room from this one as a dungeon (being one of the few rooms in the castle still with a roof).
Anyway it may interest you to know that the little barons who were in the castle during the siege actually did not give up. What happened was the little barons outside on the hillside attacking them thought, "Hey, the things they want from the king would actually help us too," so they decided to call a truce and all of them decided to make the king give the barons more power, so they went over to this field nearby that's called Parliment Peace where they held the first new type of parliment, which gave the average (rich, noble) person in England more power.
Nice photo as well.
Anyway it may interest you to know that the little barons who were in the castle during the siege actually did not give up. What happened was the little barons outside on the hillside attacking them thought, "Hey, the things they want from the king would actually help us too," so they decided to call a truce and all of them decided to make the king give the barons more power, so they went over to this field nearby that's called Parliment Peace where they held the first new type of parliment, which gave the average (rich, noble) person in England more power.
Nice photo as well.