800 year anniversary

800 Year Celebration Weekend
28th & 29th June

We are turning the clock back to the medieval era to celebrate 800 years of the Pennington’s at the Castle.
Family fun and festivities all weekend.

The Red Wyvern Society will be re-enacting life at the Castle in 1453 at the end of the 100 years' war with France. Henry VI is King of England and Sir John Pennington is master of Muncaster Castle.
The English court is dividing into factions with some supporting the King and his government headed by the Duke of Somerset and others supporting the opposing faction headed by the Duke of York. At the same time the long-standing feud between the Neville and Percy families in the North of England is intensifying with other families being drawn into the recurrent raids and skirmishes that are perpetrated by both sides. Cumberland and Westmorland have become especially lawless. Everyday life at Muncaster Castle is being interrupted by the soldiers of Lord Egremont and Lord Clifford who are demanding that Sir John Pennington and his men join them to fight the Neville family......

Saturday

10.00 Start of Living History

Noon Arrival of Soldiers
Mustering of local men

13.00                How a man shall be armed and
                        Demonstration of Arms and
                        Armour

14.00 Medieval Dinner

15.00 Medieval Entertainment

16.00 Archery practice at the Butts

17.00 End of Living History

Throughout there will be demonstrations of everyday life in the fifteenth century.

Sunday

10.00 Start of Living History

Noon How a man shall be armed and
Demonstration of Arms and Armour