What is recorded here
Launceston Castle was built by the Normans in the late 11th or early 12th century and later held by the de Redvers family, then the Courtenays. It is important as a key medieval stronghold in Cornwall and as the birthplace of the Duke of Cornwall, later King Edward V.
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