Characters

Experience feudalism through the senses of those who saw Dunstanburgh in its prime...

• Meet the designers of the castles... Thomas of Lancaster, Master Elias, John of Gaunt (see also John of Gaunt. Lord), and Henry of Holme.

• Meet the guests of the castle... King Edward II, Sir Peter Raleigh, and Sir William Stevens.

• Meet the inhabitants of the castle and look out... the constable, an archer, a servant overseeing repairs on Dunstanburgh, and the famous castellan Sir Ralph Percy.

• Meet the enemy and look in... the Earl of Warwick and an enemy scout.

• Meet King Edward IV, the Yorkist king, and experience the Wars of the Roses, which swept up all of England, including Dunstanburgh.

See what the storyteller has to say...

• Visit Modern Day Poet for an account of Lancaster and Dunstanburgh, a feudalistic tale turned legend.

• Check out King Arthur for the Medieval, Feudalistic side of his story.