Royal forces mustered at Bury St Edmunds to oppose the rebellion of Hugh Bigod and his Flemish mercenaries in East Anglia. The town served as a royalist base from which counteroperations were directed against the rebel castles. The monastery of St Edmund provided resources and symbolic legitimacy to the royal cause.
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