After the Battle of Evesham in August 1265 killed Simon de Montfort, his supporters who held Dover Castle continued to resist. The castle's Montfortian garrison held out well into 1266, using the fortress as a pirate base and receiving support from continental sympathisers through the port. The prolonged holdout of Dover, one of several Montfortian garrisons that refused to surrender, complicated the royalist pacification of England after Evesham.
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