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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, a section of the tower designed to provide additional accommodation for the royal family. In the pool behind Traitors' Gate was an ...
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...
Oct 9, 2019 · It was originally called the Water Gate, and is at the bottom of St. Thomas’ Tower. That particular tower was built by Edward I to provide additional accomodation and space for his family when staying at the Tower, but the gate conveniently allowed for easy and quiet transportation of prisoners.
Traitor's Gate. The gate was designed by the Medieval architect Master James of St George on the orders of King Edward I between 1275 and 1279 to provide a new water-gate by which King Edward could arrive at the Tower by river. In the proceeding centuries, as the Tower of London increasingly came to be used as a prison for enemies of the state ...
His royal barge could be moored beneath the great archway, below the royal apartment, which in later centuries became known as Traitors’ Gate. Records describe the royal accommodation inside St Thomas's Tower as a 'hall with a chamber'.
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.
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The Traitor’s Gate was built during the reign of King Edward I in the late 13th century. It was initially called the “Water Gate” and was used as a royal entrance to the Tower of London. However, it soon became associated with treachery and betrayal, and it was later renamed the “Traitor’s Gate.”
