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    Wark on Tweed Castle, sometimes referred to as Carham Castle, is a ruined motte-and-bailey castle at the West end of Wark on Tweed in Northumberland....
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    ravaging villages and farms in the region of the River Tweed before besieging Wark Castle and burning it to the ground. The allied army then continued south...
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  • William de Ros (died 1310), Lord of Kendal was an English noble. He fought in the wars in Scotland. William was a younger son of Robert de Ross of Wark and...
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    neighbour David I of Scotland crossed the border into England. He took Carlisle, Wark, Alnwick, Norham and Newcastle upon Tyne and struck towards Durham. On 5...
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    campaign. They left the Marches on 27 May and went north. The army mustered at Wark Castle and then Berwick, to converge on Stirling Castle. The larger force...
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    Mary of Guise (redirect from Marie de Guise)
    sent an army towards England. Instructed to cross the border and attack Wark Castle, the Scottish lords held their own council at Eckford and returned...
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  • elder, and his son the Earl of Carrick, swore fealty to the English King at Wark on 25 March 1296. In this turbulent year he appears to have been betrayed...
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  • Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury (category De Montagu family)
    from her nose, mouth, and elsewhere", after having relieved a Scottish siege on Wark Castle, where she lived, while her husband was out of the country. An...
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  • the University of California, Davis and João Magueijo of Portugal; Dave Wark of the University of Sussex, visits Bern in Switzerland; Ruth Durrer of the...
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    previously thought impregnable, was taken by bombards in 1464. The keep in Wark, Northumberland was described in 1517 as having five storeys "in each of...
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