[5] In 1287, Asher, who was Licoricia of Winchester's son, wrote a Hebrew inscription on the ruins of the Jews' Tower which forms part of the castle.

[1] A series of pictorial epigrams illuminated in medieval monastic style known as the Winchester Panels were also hung in the Great Hall.

[7] In 1302, Edward I and his second wife, Margaret of France, narrowly escaped death when the royal apartments of the castle were destroyed by fire.

[2] On 19 March 1330, Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent was beheaded outside the castle walls in the Despenser plot against King Edward III.

[8] The castle remained an important residence and on 10 April 1472 Margaret of York, daughter of King Edward IV, was born there.

[1] On 17 November 1603 Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason for his supposed part in the Main Plot in the converted Great Hall.

[11] The castle was used by the Royalists in the English Civil War, eventually falling to Parliamentarians in 1646, and then being demolished on Oliver Cromwell's orders in 1649.