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Description: | The Parliamentarians ordered the castle's destruction in 1646 after the English Civil War, considering it a bastion of Royalist sympathies. Corfe had a long and bloody relationship with the Monarchy throughout the centuries and countless intrigues took place within its walls. It was here that the teenage King Edward was murdered by his step-mother's henchmen in 975, and where in the 13th century King John (the notorious Monarch of Robin Hood times), used the castle as a storehouse for his treasures and political prisoners. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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