In 1138 William D’Aubigny II removed the wooden fort built by his father and started to construct the impressive Norman castle at Rising, the remains […]
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Castle Rising: National Figures
Castle Rising is a small village five miles to the northeast of King’s Lynn, and the Castle today is a ruin. Yet, despite the village’s […]
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Queen Isabella – the woman who declared herself a widow while her husband still lived History isn’t always kind to people, especially if the writers […]
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Queen Isabella – the only woman to successfully invade the country and depose an English king See Castle Rising’s She-Wolf Revisited (1 of 2) for […]
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