Edward III seizes power at Nottingham Castle
1330 · Event
The seventeen-year-old king's friends slip into Nottingham Castle by a secret passage and arrest Roger Mortimer, his mother's lover and the real ruler of England; Mortimer is hanged at Tyburn a month later.
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