After Kenilworth surrendered in December 1266, the last baronial holdouts under John d Eyville and other disinherited barons occupied the Isle of Ely. They used the fenland waterways as a natural defence and raided the surrounding countryside. Henry III gathered forces to reduce the position but Gilbert de Clare brokered terms. The Ely surrender in 1267 ended the Barons Wars definitively.
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