Flint's later history links a medieval succession crisis with the English Civil War. Richard II was held there by Henry Bolingbroke in 1399, giving the castle a place in the transfer of the English crown. Flint then had a comparatively quiet history until Royalists and Parliamentarians contested it in 1647. The resulting siege lasted three months. Roughly 370 years after construction, the castle could still serve as a serious defended position.
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Richard II and the 1647 siege
Flint holds Richard II for Henry Bolingbroke in 1399 and remains defensible enough to sustain a three-month Civil War siege in 1647.