The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... baronial power led Henry II to build Orford at nearly £ 1,500 and to the confiscation of all the Bigod castles . Framlingham and Bungay were later restored but demolished after the rebellion of 1173 . Other great baronial strongholds ...
... baronial power led Henry II to build Orford at nearly £ 1,500 and to the confiscation of all the Bigod castles . Framlingham and Bungay were later restored but demolished after the rebellion of 1173 . Other great baronial strongholds ...
Page 82
... baronial in a ratio of nearly five to one . He set about correcting this imbalance by building or strengthening royal castles and confiscating or destroying baronial ones ( see Demolition ) . Malcolm of Scotland surrendered Appleby and ...
... baronial in a ratio of nearly five to one . He set about correcting this imbalance by building or strengthening royal castles and confiscating or destroying baronial ones ( see Demolition ) . Malcolm of Scotland surrendered Appleby and ...
Page 176
... baronial estates . ' In C11 king and barons had the common cause of maintaining their hold on a conquered nation but once the conquest was secure mutual support was less necessary . However , kings had support of most of their barons ...
... baronial estates . ' In C11 king and barons had the common cause of maintaining their hold on a conquered nation but once the conquest was secure mutual support was less necessary . However , kings had support of most of their barons ...
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Aberdeenshire Alnwick assault Bamburgh barbican barmkin baronial basement battlements Beaumaris besiegers built C12 E O Caernarvon Caerphilly chamber chapel Chepstow church Conisbrough constable Conway crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure engines England entrance examples fireplace flanking floor forebuilding fortified manor-house fragments ft high garrison gate gatehouse ground hall Harlech Henry Henry III Herefordshire inner bailey Invernesshire keep Kenilworth Kidwelly kitchen knights L-plan later London Tower loops lord machicolated manor masonry mediaeval moat motte motte-and-bailey mound mural murder-holes Newcastle Norman North Riding Northumberland original outer bailey palisade parapet pele pele-tower Pontefract Portchester portcullis postern prison protected rectangular remains of curtain ring-work Rochester roof royal castles ruins Scottish shell-keep siege sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire