Pontefract Castle, the headquarters of Thomas of Lancaster, became the focus of the royalist suppression after Boroughbridge. Thomas was tried within its walls and beheaded outside the castle gates in sight of his own household in March 1322. The castle s fall to Edward II ended the greatest magnate challenge of his reign. Pontefract subsequently became a symbol of royal power in the north.
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