Kenilworth Castle and The History of Kenilworth.

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Kenilworth Castle was established by Geoffrey de Clinton, Chamberlain to Henry I, in about 1122. Warwick Castle was founded slightly earlier, shortly after the Norman Conquest.

Geoffrey de Clinton built an oval enclosure defended by damming streams to create a great lake to the south and west, with a broad moat on the other two sides. Henry II, envious of de Clinton's creation, commandeered the castle in 1173-4, and in 1182, the de Clintons exchanged the castle for a much smaller one in Buckinghamshire. The picture at the left is an artists impression of the castle at the ...

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