Visiting Pontefract Castle

It was Conisbrough one week and Pontefract the next. The castle tour continues! This entry summarizes my visit to Pontefract Castle, a loyal stronghold that witnessed several important events in English history: the death of a king, the adultery of a queen, treason and civil war.
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Pontefract garners a mention in Shakespeare's Richard III:

 

Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,

Fatal and ominous to noble peers!

Within the guilty closure of thy walls

Richard the second here was hack'd to death;

And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,

We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.