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    Rochester Castle stands on the east bank of the River Medway in Rochester, Kent, South East England. The 12th-century keep or stone tower, which is the...
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    oldest continuously running school in the world. Rochester Castle, built by Bishop Gundulf of Rochester, has one of the best-preserved keeps in either England...
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  • up Rochester in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rochester may refer to: Rochester, Kent Rochester, Northumberland Rochester, Illinois Rochester, Indiana...
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  • Ironclad (film) (category Films set in castles)
    Derek Jacobi, and Charles Dance. The film chronicles the siege of Rochester Castle by King John in 1215. The film was shot entirely in Wales in 2009 and...
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    Wall. Canterbury Castle was one of the three original Royal castles of Kent (the other two being Rochester Castle and Dover Castle). They were all built...
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    Rochester is a town and former city in Kent, England. It is located at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles (48 km) from London...
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    Sports. 17 April 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2021. "Film recreates Rochester castle siege – in Wales Archived 18 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine"...
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    The rebels made the first move in the war, seizing the strategic Rochester Castle, owned by Langton but left almost unguarded by the archbishop. John...
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    The Governor of Rochester Castle commanded the important castle at Rochester in Kent, England which dominated the Medway estuary and Watling Street. After...
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    Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England. The cathedral is the mother...
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    He was appointed Bishop of Rochester and Prior of the Cathedral Priory there. He built several castles, including Rochester, Colchester and the White Tower...
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    royal castles at Canterbury and Rochester, their towns, and indeed, most of Kent had already fallen to Louis. However, when he moved on to Dover Castle on...
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    appeared in Ironclad (2011), which tells the story of the siege of Rochester Castle by King John in the year 1215. It is her first film where she speaks...
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    Retrieved 28 June 2019. Castle, Vicky (27 June 2019). "Jess Glynne ticket holders told to wait to claim refunds for Rochester Castle Concerts". Kent Online...
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  • Frindsbury Intra in 1894) Rochester Castle Precincts Part of Rochester St Margaret (became part of St Margaret Intra in 1894) Rochester St Nicholas Part of...
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    Rochester (/ˈrɒtʃɛstər, -ɪs-/ ROTCH-ess-tər, -⁠iss-) is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County. It is the fourth-most...
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    Edward Fairfax Rochester (often referred to as Mr Rochester) is a character in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. The brooding master of Thornfield...
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    Paul Giamatti, as the ineffectual Reginald de Cornhill, castellan of Rochester castle. Jacobi starred in Michael Grandage's production of King Lear (London...
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    many older sources have noted the similar plans of Hedingham Castle and Rochester Castle, which was begun about 1126 and has four floors and four turrets...
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    war began in 1337—and the film is set five years after the Siege of Rochester Castle (1215)—a gap of some 117 years. Gerish, Deborah (2006). In The Crusades...
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    and set ablaze, later to be destroyed by an ammunition detonation, Rochester Castle was damaged and Empire Hope was sunk by a destroyer after rescuing...
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    Montfort at Rochester Castle. In May of the same year Warenne was present for the Battle of Lewes (fought near his ancestral home, Lewes Castle). After the...
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    in Kent, from whence she was shown to Dover Castle. On New Years Day the party reached Rochester Castle. Wriothesley continued to support Norfolk's Catholic...
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    Canterbury city walls and Rochester Castle. There remained a need to defend London and thus Kent. Deal Castle, Walmer Castle, Sandown Castle (whose remains were...
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    The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury. The town of Rochester has the bishop's...
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  • of the time, including Windsor Castle, Westminster Palace, the Tower of London and Rochester Castle, Portchester Castle and Winchester College Chapel,...
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    1950), "Rochester Castle (1336100)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 11 August 2023 Hull, Lise E. (2006) Britain's Medieval Castles. Westport:...
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    ordered the royal sergeants to arrest Belling and confine him to nearby Rochester Castle until the money was raised. This incident hit a nerve in the region...
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    (d. 1300), of Cobham and of Cooling, Sheriff of Kent, Constable of Rochester Castle in Kent and one of the Barons of the Exchequer, by his wife Joan de...
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    Knight of the Order of the Garter, Constable of Rochester Castle and Constable and Warden of Reigate Castle. He owed all his appointments to Richard II whose...
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