2-651-957 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Prince Arthur requires his Grandmother to surrender', c1860, (c1860). Arthur I (1187-c1203) 4th Earl of Richmond and Duke of Brittany between 1196 and 1202. Arthur embarked on a campaign in Normandy against John, King of England in 1202. Arthur besieged his grandmother Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Château de Mirebeau. John marched on Mirebeau, taking Arthur by surprise on 31 July 1202. Arthur was captured on 1st August, and imprisoned in the Château de Falaise in Falaise, Normandy. From "The Comic History of England, Volume I", by Gilbert A A'Beckett. [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., London]