Dunstanburgh was one of three Northumberland castles that formed a Lancastrian enclave in the north in 1461-1464. Its great gatehouse made it formidable but it was poorly provisioned. The prolonged sieges and negotiations around Alnwick, Bamburgh, and Dunstanburgh represent the last flicker of Lancastrian resistance after Towton.
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