Ludlow Castle — seat of the Council of the Marches and one of the most important medieval castles in England — held a Royalist garrison. Parliament reduced it in May 1646. The castle's surrender removed the last major Royalist base in the Welsh Marches. Ludlow had been Prince Arthur's seat before his death in 1502; it was the administrative capital of Wales and the Marches for centuries.
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