After his arrest and release, Geoffrey de Mandeville conducted some of the most brutal raids of the entire Anarchy from his base in the Fens, sacking Peterborough and Ramsey and terrorising the surrounding countryside. His ravaging of the Fens became synonymous with the worst excesses of the civil war and his death from an arrow wound while besieging a royalist castle in 1144 was seen as divine judgment on the most lawless of the Anarchy's barons.
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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