Pevensey and Rochester were the two great fortresses of the 1088 rebellion against William Rufus. Both fell to the king through siege, demonstrating that the Norman baronage could not unseat Rufus in favour of Robert Curthose without more sustained commitment than they were willing to provide.
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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