Editing Bamburgh (section)

==History==
The site now occupied by [[Bamburgh Castle]] was previously home to a fort of the [[Celtic Britons]] known as ''Din Guarie''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsBritain/BritainBernaccia.htm|title=Bernaccia (Bryneich / Berneich)|publisher=The History Files|access-date=18 June 2018}}</ref> and may have been the capital of the kingdom of [[Bernicia]], the realm of the [[Gododdin]] people,<ref>'An English empire: Bede and the early Anglo-Saxon kings' by N. J. Higham, Manchester University Press ND, 1995, {{ISBN|0-7190-4423-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7190-4423-6}}</ref> from the realm's foundation in c. 420 until 547, the year of the first written reference to the castle. In that year, the [[citadel]] was captured by the [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] ruler [[Ida of Bernicia]] (Beornice) and became Ida's seat.<ref>[[s:Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – Ingram Translation|''The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'']], entry for 547.</ref> The Anglo-Saxons called the place ''Bebbanburh'', meaning "Queen Bebba's stronghold";<ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of British Place Names|last=Mills|first=David|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2011|isbn=978-0-19-960908-6}}</ref> this was later corrupted into the modern "Bamburgh". [[Aidan of Lindisfarne]] came to this area from the monastery of Iona in 635 on behalf of King [[Oswald of Northumbria]].

Following the defeat of Northumbrian forces by the Viking [[Great Heathen Army]], at York in 867, the Kingdom of Northumbria disintegrated. Southern Northumbria became the Viking-ruled [[Scandinavian York|Kingdom of York]], while north remained under Anglo-Saxon control under the [[Rulers of Bamburgh|high reeves of Bamburgh]]. The territory finally became part of the [[Kingdom of England]] in 954.

The late medieval village began to develop near the castle.<ref>[http://www.bamburgh.org.uk/visiting-bamburgh/history/ BAMBURGH HISTORY]</ref> During the [[dissolution of the monasteries]] the property of the friars, including the castle, was seized on behalf of [[Henry VIII]].<ref>[https://bamburghbones.org/skulldugerous-knight-sir-john-forster/ Skulldugerous Knight Sir John Forster]</ref>

Late medieval British author [[Thomas Malory]] identified Bamburgh Castle with [[Joyous Gard]], the mythical castle home of [[Lancelot|Sir Lancelot]] in [[Matter of Britain|Arthurian legend]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vjEyDwAAQBAJ&q=Joyous+Gard+Bamburgh&pg=PA536|title=The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume A – Third Edition|first= Joseph |last=Black|page=536|publisher=Broadview|year=2016|isbn=978-1554813124}}</ref>

[[Lionel Lukin]]'s first purpose-built [[Lifeboat (rescue)|lifeboat]] was stationed here in 1786.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Lionel Lukin |magazine=Lifeboat |date=1934 |volume=29 |issue=319 |page=324 |url=https://lifeboatmagazinearchive.rnli.org/volume/29/319/lionel-lukin}}</ref> The [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution]] re-established [[Bamburgh Castle Lifeboat Station|a lifeboat station here]] in 1882 but it closed in 1897.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=Richie |last2=Denton |first2=Tony |title=Lifeboat Enthusiasts Handbook 2024|date=2024 |publisher=Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society |pages=4–132}}</ref>