Siege of Kenilworth

Siege of Kenilworth
Part of Second Barons' War

Kenilworth Castle
Date21 June – 13 December 1266
Location52°20′52″N 1°35′33″W / 52.3479°N 1.5925°W / 52.3479; -1.5925
Result

Royal victory

Belligerents
Royal forces Baronial forces
Commanders and leaders
Henry III
Prince Edward
Prince Edmund
John de Warenne
Henry de Hastings
Simon de Montfort the Younger
Strength
Unknown c. 1,200
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown, all survivors captured

The siege of Kenilworth (21 June – December 1266), also known as the great siege of 1266, was a six-month siege of Kenilworth Castle and a battle of the Second Barons' War. The siege was a part of an English civil war fought from 1264 to 1267 by the forces of Simon de Montfort against the Royalist forces led by Prince Edward (later Edward I of England). The siege was one of few castle attacks to take place during the war.[1]

  1. ^ Prestwich, Michael (1996). Armies and warfare in the Middle Ages: the English experience. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 297. ISBN 0-300-07663-0.