Pontefract Castle was the last Royalist garrison in England to surrender — in March 1649, six weeks after Charles I's execution. The garrison learned of the King's death during the siege. Sir Richard Morrice's defenders continued their resistance until all hope was gone. Parliament immediately ordered the castle demolished; it was blown up so thoroughly that only fragments survive, making Pontefract one of the most completely destroyed of England's great medieval fortresses.
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