#Prudhoe Castle

[scotianostra]

On July 13th 1174 William, the Lion, King of Scots was captured at The Battle of Alnwick.

Much of what is now Northumbria in England was once part of the Kingdom of the Scots, Henry II’s seizure of northern England was a sense of intense irritation to the new King and he broached the subject in 1166 but was rebuffed.

King William then approached Louis VII of France in hope of acquiring support for his claim. However, the efforts came to nothing and did little to endear William to Henry who allegedly rolled on the floor with rage when the facts became known to him. William then shifted his hopes onto Henry’s son and heir, known as, Henry the Young King. When he latter rebelled against his father in 1173 saw his chance and his army moved south to support the young prince.

Scottish forces, with Flemish mercenaries attacked several castles through out the area with little success, as an English army chased him , William withdrew back into Scotland. Ranulf de Glanville, Chief Justiciar (minister) of England sacked Berwick upon Tweed in retaliation and a truce was called. This lasted over the winter but in Spring when it expired William resumed his attacks, allegedly with an army 80,000 strong, although many historians dispute this. Prudhoe Castle was attacked for a second time and again withstood attempts to capture it.

William divided his army sending Duncan, Earl of Fife toward Warkworth whilst the main Royal army moved on to Alnwick. That castle was too strong for a direct assault so William besieged it inevitably meaning his army became dispersed over a wide area. Alerted to the Scottish movements, Ranulf de Glanville deployed with a small force from Newcastle.

The size of the force Glanville left Newcastle with is uncertain but it is said to have been relatively small as he was planning to disrupt the Scottish siege of Alnwick rather than fight a pitched battle. William had deployed his men to secure all access routes to and from Alnwick Castle and accordingly his own camp had been left with inadequate defenders. Ranulf’s spies alerted him to the whereabouts of the King and, using the morning fog as cover, launched a surprise attack. Unprepared, the Scottish forces broke into rout whilst William’s own horse was killed beneath him. With no means of escape, the King was captured by Ranulf’s men.

The defeat at Alnwick was a humiliation for William the Lion. He was taken from Alnwick to Newcastle with his feet tied beneath his horse as if he were a criminal. From Newcastle he was sent to the Tower of London and then onto Falaise in Normandy where he spent five months as Henry’s prisoner. His release was eventually secured by the Treaty of Falaise, signed in December 1174, the terms of which required the Scots to pay a ransom of £100,000 and mandated that William would become an English vassal. These crushing terms had a marked effect on William’s successors.

Future Scottish Kings like todays other subject, Alexander III, abandoned claims on northern England and instead looked north and west to extend their domains. Accordingly the battle was key to the establishment of the Anglo-Scottish border along the modern line. Whilst a small stretch of land along the Solway Firth (the Debatable Lands) and Berwick-upon-Tweed would be disputed over the subsequent centuries, the border we know today became entrenched as a result of the Battle of Alnwick. It was formally recognised in the Treaty of York in 1237

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[littledomstuff]

The ruins of Prudhoe Castle: #sketch #penandink #penandinkdrawing #inksketch #castle #ruins #prudhoe https://www.instagram.com/p/B73_pMCnWe6/?igshid=166dmzh4w3akh

[alacqua]

Happy Saturday!!! . . This photo was taken by @emmaredfernphotography . . Prudhoe Castle views from the dry moat 🧡 A very wet, murky day but I love the mood an overcast wet day creates 👌🏻📸 . #wetweather #wetphotography #moodyphotography #castles #castle #castillo #castillos #castello #castelli #historicalplace #historygram #historicalplaces #prudhoecastle #prudhoe #explore #exploringbritain #britishhistory #englishheritagesites #englishheritage #englishheritagenorthofengland #castelo #castelos #chateau #burg #schloss https://www.instagram.com/p/B_9ki_lAc6T/?igshid=w3xfq5rflbh2

[artist-turner]

Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland, 1826, William Turner

Medium: watercolor,paper

[airmanisr]

Class 66 66760 at Prudhoe by Chris Sanders Via Flickr: Class 66 66760 "David Gordon Harris" operating the diverted from the West Coast, due to enginnering works, 4M01 1415 Mossend to Carlisle N.Y. service and is seen passing through Prudhoe station with empty cement tanks in tow. Just to the right of the locomotive cab can be seen Prudhoe Castle which is very appropriate given these are Castle Cement tanks. 22nd May 2021.

[blogdemocratesjr]

Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland by J.M.W. Turner

[sakurabreeze]

Prudhoe Castle in North East England by J M W Turner 

[troop2017]

First off, my apologies for most of the photos appearing here at the start – I’m having a spot of bother again getting them where I want them!

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Apart from visiting Hadrian’s Wall sites when in inland Northumberland we also went a little further afield, visiting the Angel of the North, Beamish Museum and a Sunday afternoon in Newcastle.

Beamish museum was somewhere that I was aware of and keen to visit.  I love ‘living’ museums like this where the exhibits represent how we used to live, often with buildings saved from different areas and rebuilt in the museum.  Similar museums around the country include the Weald and Downland near Chichester, St Fagans Folk Museum in Cardiff, Blists Hill Victorian Town near Telford and the Black Country Museum in Dudley.  I have been to each of these museums (except the Black Country Museum) at least twice, and as a result often shout excitedly at the telly when I see a location I recognise (as they’re often used for filming!)

We actually visited Beamish twice.  There were 2 reasons for this, the 1st being that they are one of these, really pretty annoying, attractions where your entry fee allows you to visit for a full year.  This is all very well if you live in the area and are likely to visit more than once – but how about a cheaper price for those of us who are just visiting?  We missed out on Leeds Castle because of this policy (and saw many others turning round and leaving), and need to visit Chatham Docks again before May in order to use our tickets again before they run out…

Anyway, the main reason we had to return was that a couple of days after our first visit there was a big classic car show being held.  So that was reason enough to go back….

Beamish is a living history museum located in the village of Beamish, near to Consett.  There is an awful lot of walking available as you make your way around the site, between the pit village (and a quick tour down a real pit shaft – not far but very interesting), the town, the hall and the farm.

Entrance to the pit at Beamish

On the way down the pit

Where the miners worked (only without the light…)

The Pit Village at Beamish

Don’t despair however there are plenty of transport options; old trams and buses run frequently and there is no extra charge for these.  There are several houses that have been rebuilt and dressed in the style of the day, both in the pit village, the town and also the hall.  Don’t miss the tower as you exit the hall – this is the most interesting part of the building!

Over the 2 visits that we made we managed to see every part of the museum and were suitably impressed (at £19 each though that’s a good thing!)

On the way to the museum we had visited the Angel of the North  , the iconic sculpture designed by Anthony Gormley which you cannot miss as you drive by!  There is free parking and an information board at the bottom of the hill that the angel is sited on, and she is really an awesome sight!

We returned to the van via Consett as we needed to get fuel.

After our 2nd visit on the Sunday we headed in to Newcastle to have a look.  We ended up having some lunch – I found out that Weatherspoons now operate a system where you’re able to order online, including your drinks!  Brilliant!  (However, I also think this is old news, just like when I got all excited about the automatic ordering in McDonalds…)

After lunch we headed off to have a look around Newcastle.  I’m not sure how far we walked, but it was a far way.  We were impressed with the city – it wasn’t what we were expecting at all.  Added to the grand old buildings there was a definite vibe about the place even on a Sunday afternoon in September.

Finally in this area, on the Saturday between these 2 visits to the museum we decided to have a lazy day but ended up heading out for a drive, visiting Heddon on the Wall and then Prudhoe Castle.  We also found where the British Masters was being held (we’d seen signs for parking as we’d been driving around the area for the previous week) at Close House, which was busy preparing for the tournament that was being held the following week.

Prudhoe Castle is an English Heritage property, but whilst a pleasant enough way to spend, maybe, half an hour, it wasn’t one of the better properties we’d visited.  Put it this way, it’s one of the properties that we would have been fed up to have paid out £12 between us if we hadn’t been members….  However, if you do go make sure to visit the room above the gatehouse 🙂

  So our time in Hadrian’s Wall country came to an end, but not our time in Northumberland.  We had 11 more nights and 2 more sites on the coast to visit before moving on to Scotland!

Keep travelling 🙂

  Latest instalment from our journey around the UK in our motorhome. It might give you ideas! First off, my apologies for most of the photos appearing here at the start - I'm having a spot of bother again getting them where I want them!

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#prudhoecastle #englishheritage #nland250 #explorenorthumberland #snaphappylassesnortheast #nikond3400 #nikon #dslr #photography #photographer #northumberland #prudhoe #exploring #summer #england #northernengland #northumbria (at Prudhoe Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg451pyrtr2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[scotianostra]

On July 13th 1174 William, the Lion, King of Scots was captured at The Battle of Alnwick.

William had inherited the title of Earl of Northumbria in 1152. However, he had to give up this title to King Henry II of England in 1157. He spent much of his reign trying to regain his lost territory.

In 1173, whilst Henry II was occupied in fighting against his sons in the Revolt of 1173–1174, William saw his opportunity and invaded Northumbria. He advanced on Newcastle but found the partly built stone castle too strong to allow him to take the town. He also attacked Prudhoe Castle but found the defences too strong. Unwilling to undertake a lengthy siege, William returned to Scotland.

In 1174, William again invaded Northumbria with an even larger army that included a contingent of Flemish mercenaries. The army was said to have numbered eighty thousand men, but this is almost certainly an exaggeration. This time he avoided Newcastle but attacked Prudhoe Castle again. The castle had been strengthened since the previous year and after a siege of three days William moved north to besiege Alnwick. William divided his army into three columns and one of these, under the command of Duncan, Earl of Fife, attacked Warkworth and set fire to the church of St Lawrence with a large number of refugees inside.

William made the fatal error of allowing his army to spread out, instead of concentrating them around his base at Alnwick. On the night of 11 July, a party of about four hundred mounted knights, led by Ranulf de Glanvill, set out from Newcastle and headed towards Alnwick. This small fighting force contained several seasoned knights, who had fought against the Scots before. They reached Alnwick shortly after dawn after becoming lost in heavy fog. There they found William’s encampment, where the Scottish king was only protected by a bodyguard of perhaps sixty fighting men. At the sound of alarm, William rushed from his tent and hurriedly prepared to fight. The English force charged and the Scottish king and his bodyguard met the charge head on. The fighting did not last long. William’s horse was killed beneath him and he was captured. Those of his followers who had not been killed surrendered.

William was brought back to Newcastle as a captive. His army found itself leaderless and wandered back to Scotland. William was held at Newcastle for a time but it was not considered strong enough, and he was finally moved to Falaise in Normandy. Whilst he was there, Henry sent an army to occupy part of Scotland, with its five strongest castles: Roxburgh, Berwick, Jedburgh, Edinburgh and Stirling.

To obtain his freedom, William was forced to sign the Treaty of Falaise, under which he swore an oath of allegiance to the English king and agreed to the garrisoning of the captured castles by English soldiers at Scottish expense. When William was released, after signing the treaty, he travelled back to Scotland via Newcastle, and was attacked by a mob; such was the antipathy of the local people towards Scottish invaders.

The Treaty of Falaise lasted for fifteen years until Richard the Lionheart effectively sold the castle back to William in order to fund his crusade to the Holy Land.

This was the last attempt by a Scottish king to regain lost territories in northern England. In 1237, under the Treaty of York, Alexander II of Scotland abandoned his forefathers’ claims to Northumbria and Cumbria, and set the boundary between the two kingdoms as running between the Solway Firth  and the mouth of the River Tweed, as it still does today.

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[littledomstuff]

Thought I'd add a bit of colour to yesterday's sketch: #sketch #penandink #watercolour #prudhoe #castle #ruins https://www.instagram.com/p/B76Su2SnFrY/?igshid=1g4e4c5bjvwpd

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

23) any obscure life experiences that you feel have helped your writing?

I like this question but now I’m staring at it and scratching my head because like...I definitely have some semi-obscure life experiences that I would like to draw on in one way or another, just because it’s easier to make something seem real if you can base it on experience rather than research, but...I’m not sure if I actually have much? every now and then I’ve used something, I guess--like, the quiet things that no one ever knows was completely based on a real event, and I had Loki and Steve visit Belvedere Castle in Central Park because I went there once. well, and I’m pretty sure part of the reason I love Loki so much is because I see in him and/or project on him a lot of my own family issues and mental-health stuff. or...I wrote a werewolf story several years ago that I set in Alaska, and another story about settlers on Mars that drew from the five years I spent in Barrow, one weekend school visit to Prudhoe Bay, and a year as an apparel clerk at Fred Meyer...but I never got either of those to a point where I was satisfied with them, and it’s been quite a while since I’ve worked on any original fiction. well, and then there’s the Hiddleston novelgerm, which I also haven’t done anything with for years, but I went pretty heavily self-insert with the main character (she’s ace, actually everyone is a-spec, she has depression and loads of anxiety issues, she’s an American on a study-abroad program in England).

for that matter, the question I’m apparently answering seems to be “have you put any life experiences in your writing” which is not actually the question being asked. I don’t know, maybe traveling a lot as a kid made me more attentive to detail because there were things I wanted to remember?

[artist-turner]

Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland, 1826, William Turner

Medium: watercolor,paper

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-turner/prudhoe-castle-northumberland

[romanticism-art]

Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland, 1826, William Turner

Size: 29.2x40.8 cm Medium: watercolor, paper