An historian says she’s certain that Empress Matilda, an English princess of the Middle Ages, was the inspiration behind George R. R. Martin’s Rhaenyra Targaryen – and she lived in the modern day Oxford Castle & Prison. Rhaenyra’s dramatic struggle for power following the death of her father Viserys will continue to play out in […] The post Three months when Oxford Castle became home to the real-life Rhaenyra Targaryen appeared first on Oxford Castle & Prison.