Historical place archive

Wallingford Castle in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Wallingford Castle in England. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels2 people1156–1646

Historical events in Wallingford Castle

1156

1156
Death of William of Poitiers
William of Poitiers · House of Plantagenet

Death of William of Poitiers

1646

September 1646
Siege of Wallingford Castle
Thomas Fairfax · Civil War

Oxford capitulates following the final siege of Oxford, and by the end of September 1646 Charles had neither army nor garrison in England, following the surrender of Thomas Blagge at Wallingford Castle after a siege conducted by Fairfax

Provenance

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