Honour of Lancaster
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The Honour of Lancaster was a medieval English honour, located primarily in the north-west of England. It began as the fief granted by William the Conqueror to Roger the Poitevin after the Norman conq
Lancaster Castle, the caput baroniae of the Honour of Lancaster
Lancaster Castle
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Lancaster Castle is a medieval castle and former prison in Lancaster in the English county of Lancashire. Its early history is unclear, but it was most likely founded in 1092-4 on the site of a Roman
Honour of Lancaster
…Halton. One entry does imply he had a castle somewhere which has been argued to be either Clitheroe or Penwortham. It is thought that he began building Lancaster Castle afterwards. The lands in the north-west of England formed a largely autonomous palatinate, but they were linked to other land holdings as far away as…
Lancaster Castle's entrance
A watercolour by Thomas Hearne from 1778 of the west of Lancaster's keep. The round tower next to the keep was demolished in 1796.
The castle's 15th-century gatehouse, in a 19th-century depiction by an unknown artist, with new inmates arriving at the castle when it was used as a prison.
Two of the Pendle witches, tried at Lancaster in 1612, in an illustration from William Harrison Ainsworth's 1849 novel The Lancashire Witches