“Several kings who followed Henry I enjoyed the use of Corfe Castle, but it was King John who spent more time there than at any other castle, lavishing money on improving it to his tastes.

Northampton Castle. Credit: Folger Shakespeare Library. The tour was a landmark project in 2015, with the locations chosen for their links with the real King John and where he took his court.

fought alongside English rebel barons against King John. In 1216 Dover Castle, which remained loyal to John was broken into by French and rebel forces and an "epic, bloody, struggle for control of ...

Several kings who followed Henry I enjoyed the use of Corfe Castle, but it was King John who spent more time there than at any other castle, lavishing money on improving it to his tastes.

While laying siege to the castle of a rebellious baron in his home ... His wife shouted at him, “I will not hand over my boys to your lord, King John, because he foully murdered his nephew ...