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Traitors' Gate. The Traitors' Gate is an entrance through which many prisoners of the Tudors arrived at the Tower of London. The gate was built by Edward I to provide a water gate entrance to the Tower, part of St. Thomas' Tower, which was designed to provide additional accommodation for the royal family . In the pool behind Traitors' Gate was ...
Oct 4, 2017 · Traitors’ Gate was originally called Water Gate, because that is what it was, a means for King Edward I and other royals to get into St. Thomas’s Tower by water. When the gate was built in the ...
Anne's daughter, Princess Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth I, also had to cross "Traitors Gate". His half-sister Queen Mary, the daughter of Henry VIII's first marriage with Catherine of Aragon, ordered Elisabeth's arrest, believing her to be involved in Wyatt's rebellion. Elizabeth was captured on Palm Sunday 1554 and was led by barge to the ...
Traitor’s Gate. Traitor’s (or Traitors’) Gate was a watergate – originally simply called the Water Gate – beneath St Thomas’s Tower at the Tower of London. The gate was built in the late 1270s on the orders of Edward I to provide a convenient means by which he could arrive by barge. It acquired its present name as the Tower ...
The Tower of London was built as a secure fortress and a symbol of royal power. Behind the castle's walls were storehouses for weapons and the Royal Mint produced the nation's coins. It was also a royal palace with luxuriously furnished apartments and a menagerie of royal beasts. But the Tower was also used to contain people who posed a serious ...
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Feb 24, 2022 · However as time marched on the Tower came to be used more and more as a prison and soon the infamous reputation of the gate began to grow. By 1544, the gate had taken on the fearsome moniker of the Traitors' Gate. Condemned prisoners would be escorted to the Tower of London by boat, passing under Tower Bridge as they went.
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