Mainly for protection. They made a deal with the person who owned the castle. If they protected them, they would give them a certain percent of their crops.
There is a link below to a website on famous medieval castles.
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To protect the king
Some castles had HUNDREDS of servants.
The name of the castle as "medieval" places it in the time it was built. The Middle Ages is a time in history that covers a 1000 years of time and when a historian states that something is medieval or in the middle ages it places it on the timeline.
Medieval castles.
Most castles were usually made of stone and metal, so the usual colors were gray, black, and white.
The oldest medieval castles were made in the 9th century AD. They were made until the end of the middle ages.
There is nothing different between todays castles and medieval time castles. Today's castles were built in medieval times.
There's security guards in and out the castle and there's no need to know who lives in it.
The welsh medieval castles were big and gray.
to try to protect a village or villages