What impact did the English revolution have on castles?

Answer 1

The first motte-and-bailey castles were built by Norman military advisers to king Edward the Confessor in 1050 or 1051, along the Welsh border in Herefordshire, at Dover in Kent and perhaps at Clavering in Essex. This was some 15 years before the Norman conquest of England - the king hoped to create a Norman buffer zone in Herefordshire to protect his kingdom from raids by the Welsh and he invited large numbers of Norman "advisers" to establish a presence there.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles indicate what the English thought about these incredible alien constructions and the Normans who built them: "the foreigners had then built a castle in Herefordshire, in Earl Swein's province, and inflicted every injury and insult they could upon the king's men thereabouts . . .".

The Normans were universally hated by most of the English population and in late 1052 a number of armed uprisings persuaded the Normans to leave England in considerable haste - they were declared "outlaw" and their castles were all abandoned (some were rebuilt and re-occupied by the Normans after the conquest).

After 1066 the local English populations were used as forced labour to build large numbers of motte-and-bailey castles, which became centres of oppression and symbols of Norman domination over them. It is surprising that within a generation of the conquest, this hatred of all things foreign seems to have faded and the Anglo-Norman people had forged a symbiotic relationship.

Answer 2

nothing you numpty