Woodcroft Castle
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Woodcroft Castle is a moated medieval castle in the parish of Etton, Cambridgeshire, England.
Woodcroft Castle
From Memorials of Old Northamptonshire (1903)
Cavalier
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The term Cavalier was first used to describe cavalrymen, and later by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II during the Engl
Woodcroft Castle
…never completed. Early Tudor additions (late 1400s) retained these medieval elements in the current design. Woodcroft Castle was briefly held by the Royalists during the Second English Civil War and was attacked and taken by Parliamentarian forces in June 1648. Michael Hudson, commander of the Royalist forces…
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, often considered to be an archetypal Cavalier
Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart, c. 1638, by Sir Anthony van Dyck. Both Lord John Stewart and Lord Bernard Stewart died in the English Civil War, fighting on the Royalist side.
Triple Unite gold coin of 1644: the Latin legend translates as "The Protestant religion, the laws of England, the liberty of Parliament. Let God arise and His enemies be scattered."
Charles I in Three Positions, the triple portrait of Charles I by Anthony van Dyck