Discover the story of Nicholaa de la Haye: the Woman Who Saved England and the first woman to be appointed a sheriff in her own right.
Her defence of Lincoln Castle led to the defeat of the rebels of the First Barons' War - and their French allies.
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England was suffering the triple calamity of civil war, foreign invasion and a child king on the throne. Nicholaa de la Haye was holding Lincoln Castle as the Battle of Lincoln was fought
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In 1217, England was suffering the triple calamity of civil war, foreign invasion and a child king on the throne. Nicholaa de la Haye was holding Lincoln Castle, in the king’s name, against a…