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- Bamburgh Castle is an imposing castle located on the coast at Bamburgh in Northumberland, Northern England.
It was known to the native Britons as Din Guardi and had been the capital of the British Kingdom of Bryneich from the realm's foundation in c.420 until 547, the year of the first written reference to the castle. 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 Northumberland.
After Robert was captured, his wife continued the defence until coerced to surrender by the king's threat to blind her husband.
It is a Grade I listed building.