Cambridge Castle submitted to French and baronial forces in 1216 as the royalist position in the eastern counties collapsed. The loss of Cambridge opened the river routes into the midlands. It was one of a chain of submissions that demonstrated how completely Louis controlled central and eastern England during the year of John's death.
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