  thumb|300px|bamburgh castle from the north east  bamburgh castle is located on the coast at bamburgh in northumberland, england. it is a grade i listed building. ==history==  built on a dolerite outcrop, the location was previously home to a fort of the native britons known as din guarie and may have been the capital of the british kingdom of the region (see gododdin, bryneich and hen ogledd)'an english empire: bede and the early anglo-saxon kings' by n. j. higham, manchester university press nd, 1995, isbn 0-7190-4423-5, isbn 978-0-7190-4423-6 from the realm's foundation in c.420 until 547, the year of the first written reference to the castle. in that year the citadel was captured by the anglo-saxon ruler ida of bernicia (beornice) and became ida's seat. it was briefly retaken by the britons from his son hussa during the war of 590 before being relieved later the same year. his grandson ÃÃ°elfriÃ¾ passed it on to his wife bebba, from whom the early name bebbanburgh was derived. the vikings destroyed the original fortification in 993. the normans built a new castle on the site, which forms the core of the present one. william ii unsuccessfully besieged it in 1095 during a revolt supported by its owner, robert de mowbray, earl of northumbria. after robert was captured, his wife continued the defence until coerced to surrender by the king's threat to blind her husband. bamburgh then became the property of the reigning english monarch. henry ii probably built the keep. as an important english outpost, the castle was the target of occasional raids from scotland. in 1464 during the wars of the roses, it became the first castle in england to be defeated by artillery, at the end of a nine-month siege by richard neville, 16th earl of warwick. the forster family of northumberlandthe history and antiquities of north durham rev james raine ma (1840) pp306-10 history and pedigree of forster family provided the crown with twelve successive governors of the castle for some 400 years until the crown granted ownership to sir john forster. the family retained ownership until sir william forster (d. 1700) was posthumously decl
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