English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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... Bedford SCAMBRIDGE SUFFOLK " Cambridge Eye Bungay Wingfield Monor BEDFORD Castle Hedingham Lille Clavering INGHAM HERTFORD Shirburn Berk tead • Hertford • Plechey , Walton • Colchester Wenhamingham Orford ESSEX lower of London ...
... Bedford SCAMBRIDGE SUFFOLK " Cambridge Eye Bungay Wingfield Monor BEDFORD Castle Hedingham Lille Clavering INGHAM HERTFORD Shirburn Berk tead • Hertford • Plechey , Walton • Colchester Wenhamingham Orford ESSEX lower of London ...
Page 163
... Bedford was razed to the ground , and Fawkes de Bréauté , deserted even by his wife , went into exile , to die a few years later still angrily uncomprehending the apparent injustice which turned loyal service to one king into armed ...
... Bedford was razed to the ground , and Fawkes de Bréauté , deserted even by his wife , went into exile , to die a few years later still angrily uncomprehending the apparent injustice which turned loyal service to one king into armed ...
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... Bedford and Kenilworth , for ex- ample , we may finally compare the manner of their ending . Bedford was eventually taken by storm and the garrison were hanged . The garrison of Kenilworth , who had given far greater trouble to the ...
... Bedford and Kenilworth , for ex- ample , we may finally compare the manner of their ending . Bedford was eventually taken by storm and the garrison were hanged . The garrison of Kenilworth , who had given far greater trouble to the ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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amongst attack barbican barons Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris Bedford Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentrated concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover Durham Earl early earthwork Edward eleventh century England English castles English medieval entrance example feature flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway Ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval castle medieval military architecture Middle Ages military importance moat motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castle mound Norman Orford outer bailey pele towers perhaps period Pipe Rolls quadrangular raised ramparts records reign residence residential Rochester rôle royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber Tower of London tower-house twelfth century warfare whole Windsor Yorkshire