An episode that illustrates the desperate nature of Anarchy politics. Matilda fell dangerously ill at Devizes after the Rout of Winchester and was carried in a litter to Bristol by Robert of Gloucester. The castle held during her absence. Throughout the Anarchy both sides used illness, hunger and weather as weapons — the land itself was being destroyed.
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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