for a period of the english civil war, kineton was looted by prince rupert with part of the royalist army. this was after he had defeated sir james ramsay, from the parliamentarians, and by doing this he failed to aid the rest of his army, thus leading to a neutral ending to the battle of edgehill on 23 october 1642. a year later, in july 1643, king charles met with queen henrietta maria at kineton.