Lathom House, the fortified Stanley manor in south-west Lancashire, was besieged twice during the English Civil Wars. In the first siege (February-May 1644), Charlotte de la Trémouille held the house against Parliamentary forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax and then Alexander Rigby. She refused every summons to surrender, sortied against the besiegers, and held out until Prince Rupert's army relieved the garrison. In the second siege (1645), with Derby on the Isle of Man and no relief force available, the house fell. Parliament demolished it so completely that almost nothing remains above ground today.