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briefbestiary · 1 year ago

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The witch with iron claws. Supposedly, Black Annis had carved a tunnel from her home to the cellars beneath Leicester Castle where she is known as Cat Anna.

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ofwraithsandwords · 9 months ago

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Interesting that you would say that, Lae'zel.

The hag's name is Black Agnes, inspired by Black Annis from English folklore.

#bg3 #lae'zel #astarion #tav #black annis #black agnes #night hag #and yes we are doing the evil run with her #thinking about just making her Withers' ex-wife #her goal is to mess up the timeline as much as possible just to spite him #she also lost the undead cat in the divorce so #it's to be expected

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scotianostra · 2 years ago

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On 16th of June 1338 the Siege of Dunbar ended, others differ,

Agnes, Countess of Dunbar, was the daughter of Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, a close ally of Robert the Bruce. In 1337, while her husband was fighting in the north, ‘Black Agnes’ defended her home, Dunbar Castle, against an English siege.

Black Agnes was named for her olive skin and black hair. She was outraged when the Earl of Salisbury besieged her home and she refused to surrender. Her hubby, Patrick Dunbar, 9th Earl of Dunbar was away fighting elsewhere, , but where is a bit vague.

For months Agnes and a few servants and men held out against the English forces. The English earl brought mighty siege engines to batter the castle walls. Agnes and her ladies walked the battlements and dusted the walls where they had been hit with their white handkerchiefs.

Agnes stood on the walls of the castle and berated the English forces. When the Earl of Salisbury brought a battering ram called ‘a sow’ to the castle, Agnes had a massive boulder - that the attackers had fired at the walls - dropped on the war machine, destroying it.

The English held Agnes’ brother John Randolph, Earl of Moray, captive. They put a rope about his neck and threatened to hang him. Agnes called their bluff telling them to go ahead as she would fall heir to the Earldom of Moray. The English relented and Randolph survived.

Eventually the English earl gave up and abandoned the siege. Black Agnes became a folk hero. A ballad, put words into the mouth of the Earl of Salisbury: She kept a stir in tower and trench,That brawling, boisterous Scottish wench,Came I early, came I late,I found Agnes at the gate.

The video is my own that I made up 11 years ago.

#scotland #scottish #england #english #east lothian #Black Agnes #history #Youtube

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geezerwench · 2 years ago

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One of the roles of a noblewoman in the medieval world was to manage her lord husband’s lands while he was away at war.

Despite their defeat in 1314 by King Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn, English forces returned to Scotland in 1338 intent on conquering the Scots. On 13 January they arrived outside the mighty gates of Dunbar Castle near the fallen town of Berwick expecting an easy victory. But Black Agnes,, Countess of Dunbar and March, thus nicknamed for her dark hair and complexion, was not about to give them one.

The English demanded that Agnes surrender. She had few guards inside the castle to help her, but she sent back this somewhat poetic reply: “Of Scotland’s King I haud my house, He pays me meat and fee, And I will keep my gude auld house, while my house will keep me.”

The Earl of Salisbury, who commanded the attackers, answered her rebuff by launching stones at the castle walls. As the catapults stopped firing, Agnes sent her maids to dust off the battlements with white handkerchiefs. When Salisbury tried to bring down her walls with a ram, Agnes had huge boulders thrown down to smash the English machinery.

Having previously captured her brother, the Earl of Moray, the English paraded him in front of Agnes’s walls and threatened to kill him unless she surrendered. She simply shrugged and told them to go ahead, as when her childless brother died, she would inherit his lands and title. Salisbury quickly recognised the flaw in his argument and let the Earl live.

The siege dragged on, after five months of trying, Salisbury realised that he would never get the better of Agnes, so the would be conquerors marched away.

Sourced from articles by Ben Gazur and by Ben Johnson for Historic UK.

A depiction of 'Black Agnes' in H E Marshall's 'Scotland's Story', published in 1906. https://www.facebook.com/groups/537859523834021

#Black Agnes #Scotland #history #women in history

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valkyries-things · 6 months ago

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AGNES OF DUNBAR // COUNTESS OF DUNBAR & MARCH

“Known as Black Agnes for her dark complexion, she was the wife of Patrick, 9th Earl of Dunbar and March. Agnes became renowned for her heroic defence of Dunbar Castle in East Lothian against an English siege led by William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, which began on 13 January 1338 and ended on 10 June the same year during the Second War of Scottish Independence from 1331 to 1357. She is buried in the vault near Mordington House.”