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Berkeley Castle
/ ˈbɑːklɪ /
noun
- a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327
Example Sentences
This tree has guarded the entrance to Wick Court farm for hundreds of years and may have been there when Elizabeth I came from Berkeley Castle, having been reprimanded for killing too many stags.
Look on top of the hill above the Bath House to see where the Berkeley Castle stands.
Edward II was then locked up in Berkeley Castle where he died the next year.
Edward the Second, the same king who was cuckolded by Mortimer, dies very horribly and mysteriously at Berkeley Castle—his body not being bruised or stabbed or marked in any way, but much distorted in the face; it was supposed that he had been “burnt up … inside with a red-hot iron.”
In episode one we visit Berkeley Castle where Edward II was murdered in 1327.
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