After capturing Stephen at Lincoln, Empress Matilda besieged the Royalists in Winchester castle. Stephen's queen and mercenary captain William of Ypres besieged the besiegers in turn. Matilda fled but Robert of Gloucester was captured in the rout — then exchanged for the captive King Stephen, resetting the war. One of the most strategically decisive episodes of the Anarchy.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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