After six months of siege, with the garrison reduced to eating horses and reduced to desperate straits, the Dictum of Kenilworth was issued in October 1266 offering the disinherited barons terms to recover their lands by paying fines rather than being permanently dispossessed. The garrison inside Kenilworth negotiated its surrender under these terms. The Dictum was a landmark document of reconciliation ending the last embers of the Second Barons War.
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.
Research a location near this battlefield