Although it has always officially been called "Exeter Castle", the more common name of "Rougemont Castle" first appeared in a local record dated around 1250. It refers to the red colour of the rock on the hill and the colour of the walls built from these rocks. King Richard III visited Exeter in 1483 and in Shakespeare's "Richard III", the bard makes him later recall a premonition of his death when he is shown the castle and confuses "Rougemont" with "Richmond". The castle was said to have been badly damaged during the Second Cornish uprising of 1497 when Perkin Warbeck and 6,000 Cornishmen entered the city, and by 1600 it was said to display "gaping chinks and an aged countenance."