Castles

Corfe Castle was owned by members of the Bankes family from 1635 to some time in the 1980s, a period of roughly 350 years.

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Concentric castles had baileys, an inner bailey and an outer bailey. The inner bailey was used for the peasants homes and the outer bailey was used for blacksmith workshops and other craftsmen's workshops.

A siege tower is a tower on a wheeled platform to allow the attackers to climb up it and over the castle walls. Accurate doesn't come into it.

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The Warwick Castle was built in the year 1068. The Warwick Castle was built to help William the Conqueror keep control of the midland area as he advanced. The first church was founded in the castle in 1119.

It was transformed into a king arthur castle with twelve generals. It became a religious place based on astrolgy.

The great hall of a castle or manor house was the most important room for many purposes. It was the place where formal functions happened, guests were entertained, and dinners were eaten. It was often divided by partitions into many areas for different purposes, including offices, other work areas, a dining area, and the sleeping quarters of at least the lord and his family.

It was a very large room, and very high, typically having no ceiling but the roof. There was an architectural reason for such a great room, which was that chimneys were unknown at the time of construction of most castles and manor houses. The chimney was invented in the 12th century, and caught on rather slowly because chimneys were expensive, required understanding to construct, and required maintenance. The result was that there were no fireplaces in buildings before the 12th century, and very few after that in the Middle Ages.

The great hall was usually heated by an open fire on a hearth in the middle of the room. The smoke rose through the room to the ceiling, which was why the ceiling was so high. It passed out of the room through openings under the gables or in the roof. An opening in the roof was usually capped by a structure called a louver with openings in the sides, so the rain or snow would not come in.

An alternate to a central fire was to have the hearth against a stone wall and have a smoke canopy over it to gather the smoke and vent it through the wall. This was done in kitchens, but seems not to have been done in the great halls. We have pictures of smoke canopies, but they seem always to have been in kitchens.

The greatest difference between medieval architecture and the Tudor style that followed in the Renaissance was that the great hall was either absent or much smaller in Tudor buildings. Rooms could be built over the great hall, and so it was not as high. The need for distributed heat from a central fire was gone, so bedrooms, dining rooms, offices, and so on, could be placed as the owners wished and heated by their own fires in fireplaces.

There is a link to a picture of a medieval great hall below, showing the placement of the central hearth, with firewood piled on it.

King Ludwig of Bavaria built the castle, but didn't really live in it long before he downed in the lake below the castle. Historians today aren't sure if he committed suicide or it was murder. It is a big empty place today. His summer palace down the road has his things in it, including a man made grotto where he sat in a swan boat in an artificial lake to listened to music by Wagner. There is a dining room the castle that is fully mirrored and the table would be brought up fully laden with food through a trapdoor in the floor.

Castles did not have individual rooms, but one big great hall with a fireplace at one end. Everyone lived, slept, ate, and did other things in this hall and so did the king. The idea of privacy is a modern one. No one was private about anything in the middle ages.

Don't listen to them. Castle had hundreds of rooms. I suspect the King's was simply the nicest one.

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One of the earliest known castles is in the Loire Valley in northern France at Doue-la-Fontaine. It dates from 950. There are probably others still in at least partial existence that are from even earlier times.

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Elmina Castle was built in what is now Ghana by the Portuguese in 1482.

The original keep of Cardiff Castle was built on a motte, which was a small hill. The castle was extended around this, however, and most of it was not above the surrounding countryside.

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Robert FitzHamon is said to have built and lived in it during the 1000s. (He began building it in 1080).

The first castle was a wooden fortification built on the orders of William the Conqueror in 1067 (one year after the Battle of Hastings). There may have been an earlier Anglo-Saxon fort on the site but no evidence exists. It was later replaced by a stone structure during the 12th century. This was inhabited by nobles and Royalty until it was abandoned during Richard the Lionheart's crusade. The Sheriff of Nottingham occupied the abandoned castle at this point. Prince John's supporters took over the castle being besieged on Richards return from the Holy lands. The castle and the surrounding Sherwood and Barnsdale deer forests are the siting of the Robin Hood stories around this time. The castle was further expanded in the following centuries until artillery made castles such as these obsolete. Charles I raised his standard outside the castle but English civil war skirmishes reduced much of an already damaged castle to little more than a defensive position. The parliamentarians occupied it eventually and successfully defended it. It was raised to the ground after Charles's execution to prevent it being used again. After the restoration of the monarchy a ducal mansion was built on the site which later burnt down. It was later restored in the 19th century and this is the building on the site today acting as a museum with only some of the outer medieval fortifications showing.

During the 8th century Tang dynasty, sulphur and saltpeter were first combined with charcoal to create an explosive called huoyao or gunpowder. A substance that did not encourage eternal life, however, gunpowder was used to treat skin diseases and as a fumigant to kill insects before its advantage as a weapon was made clear. The Chinese began experimenting with the gunpowder filled tubes.At some point, they attached bamboo tubes to arrows and launched them with bows. Soon they discovered that these gunpowder tubes could launch themselves just by the power produced from the escaping gas. The true rocket was born.

The main furniture in the great hall were wooden benches and large tables made by laying wood planks across other benches. At night, the table was taken down to make room for the servants who slept on the floor.

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If it drops it is called a portcullis.

they needed a place to stay. It was cold outside.