5616 x 2736 px | 47,5 x 23,2 cm | 18,7 x 9,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
24 septembre 2015
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Castle Cornet is a large island castle in Guernsey, and former tidal island, also known as Cornet Rock or Castle Rock, which has been part of one of the breakwaters of St Peter Port's harbour, the main one in the island, since 1859. Formerly a tidal island, like Lihou on the west coast of Guernsey, it was first fortified as a castle between 1206 and 1256, following the division of the Duchy of Normandy in 1204. In 1339 when a French force captured the island. Cornet was besieged and captured, and the garrison of eleven men at arms and fifty archers were massacred. The Island was retaken in 1340 with the castle recaptured in August 1345 after a three-day attack by professional soldiers and the local militia. In 1372 Owain Lawgoch a claimant to the Welsh throne, at the head of a free company, on behalf of France, attacked Guernsey, popularly called “La Descente des Aragousais”. Owain Lawgoch withdrew after killing 400 of the Island militia, without capturing the besieged Castle Cornet. The cost of construction of works, repairs, maintenance and the garrison was paid for from revenues raised in the Island by the Warden or as sometimes called, Keeper of the Castle under royal warrant. With the advent of cannon and gunpowder, the castle was remodelled between 1545 and 1548. In 1547 the French, having captured Sark, descended on Guernsey and were fired on by shipping off St Peter Port and by cannon on the Castle. Additional building works took place. Prof. John Le Patourel, in The Building of Castle Cornet mentions that in 1566, iron and hammers were taken to "Creavissham" (i.e. Crevichon), and that island quarried for the castle. In 1594 the "Royal Battery" was completed.
