Eleanor de Montfort and the siege of 1265

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.theguardian.com/legendary-adventures-in-england/2025/may/02/eleanor-de-montfort-dover-siege-1265-story

Missed this previously...

[Jim Webster]

Interesting

[Imperial Dave]

My medieval knowledge is lacking so didn't know of this...

[Keraunos]

Thanks for lifting the veil of ignorance on this matter.  I, too, had known nothing of it despite having studied the period at school and university.  Must have been paying too much attention to wargaming and too little to my studies 

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Cantabrigian]

The description at Castellogy is a little less heroic.  I wonder where the Guardian's account came from.

By June 1265, however, Simon was dead and Eleanor de Montfort, his wife held the castle, supported by a garrison of 29 archers. Her forces  were overpowered by fourteen royalist prisoners held in the castle, who took the Great Tower, leaving Eleanor's remaining troops outside in the inner and outer bailey. Prince Edward then besieged the castle, forcing Eleanor to surrender.