Earl Robert of Gloucester built a new castle at Faringdon as an offensive outpost to threaten Stephen's midland positions. Stephen besieged it promptly. The garrison held briefly before being starved out. A rare Anarchy-era example of Stephen taking aggressive initiative to eliminate an imperial strongpoint.
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