Which deposed king of England died in Pontefract Castle in 1400?
Pomfret School town of Pomfret in West Yorkshire, England. In Elizabethan times, the castle and the surrounding medieval market town of Pontefract were referred to as "Pomfret". England's King Richard II died in the castle, by starvation or murder, and the castle has a significant role William Shakespeare's plays "The Life and Death of King Richard the Second", V.i, V.iii, and the penultimate scene V.v which is set entirely in Pomfret Castle; and "The Tragedy of King Richard the Third", II.iv, III.i, III.ii, III.iii, all set in Pomfret Castle, and V.iii. Pomfret's 13th century stained glass windows Pomfret’s Clark memorial chapel contains
Pontefract Castle Pontefract Castle Pontefract (or, Pomfret) Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of famous sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War. The castle, on a rock to the east of the town above All Saints' Church, was constructed in approximately 1070 by Ilbert de Lacy. on land which had been granted to him by William the Conqueror as a reward for his support during the Norman Conquest. There is, however, evidence of earlier occupation of the site.