Kenilworth Castle

Norman Keep to Elizabethan Pleasure Palace

Published 10th June 2015

Chapter 3 : Towers and Trebuchets (1120-1266)

The-Norman-Keep-–-1120-1130s — The Norman Keep (1120 - 1130s)

Part-of-the-surrounding-wall.-The-mere-was-outside — Part of the surrounding wall. The mere was outside.

The Castle was not just defensive, however – there are records of a Queen’s Chamber, from the time of Eleanor of Provence, wife of John’s son, Henry III.

Eventually, a compromise was reached, and the garrison surrendered on 14^th December 1266.