Colchester Castle submitted to Prince Louis of France as he extended his control across eastern England in 1216. The great Norman keep was one of the strongest in England but the royalist cause had so collapsed that the garrison surrendered without a siege. The loss of Colchester opened East Anglia to French control and further isolated the royalist holdouts in the north and west.
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