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2 unusual facts about Norham Castle


Norham Castle

The following year a Lancastrian army besieged the castle for eighteen days until it was relieved by Yorkist forces.

Richard Foxe

For these reasons rather than from any ecclesiastical scruples Foxe visited and resided in his new diocese; and he occupied Norham Castle, which he fortified and defended against a Scottish raid in Perkin Warbeck's interests in 1497.


1130s in England

January–February - King David I of Scotland raids Northumberland, taking the Bishop of Durham's Norham Castle (garrisoned only by nine), and besieges the castle at Wark on Tweed.


see also

Norham

J. M. W. Turner always tipped his hat to Norham Castle, as it was the place which brought him fame as an artist.