Castles

Windsor Castle is still the official residence of The Queen.

The castle was built by newspaper publisher William Randolf Hearst because he dreamed of a castle in that area of the central coast of CA. He found a castle in Europe and had it broken down, each piece numbered and shipped to CA to be rebuilt on the hilltop. He added works of art from around the world and built an outdoor pool with Greek temples and an indoor Art Deco pool with flakes of gold in the bottom. The castle is now state property and tours can be taken by the public.

In the play, Macbeth as king fights his last battle against Macduff, thane of Fife. Macduff kills and beheads Macbeth. The battle takes place near Macbeth's royal castle at Dunsinane. But according to the Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed [d. 1580], King Macbeth was wounded during the battle of Lumphanan against the forces of the future King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093]. He died from those injuries a few days later, on August 15, 1057, about 60 miles away, in Scone where he had been crowned in 1040. King Macbeth was buried in the royal burial ground for kings of Scotland, Norway, and Ireland just off the west coast of Scotland, on the island of Iona. Also named Saint Columba's Island, the isle was the last resting place of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040], who had had King Macbeth's father killed and whom King Macbeth in turn had killed in battle.

Eat the castle walls, as they were made of unleavened bread and so would go off otherwise.

Land (primarily the holy land and Jerusalem); Money;

It wasn't all economically and territorially motivated, Jerusalem is important in a religious context.

Chepstow Castle was built by the Norman Lord William FitzOsborn (later Earl of Hereford) in 1067, just one year after the Norman Invasion of England. It was chosen as a strategic site to protect the Rivers Wye and Severn as these were major transport routes for both trade and military.

The history is best learnt by visiting the castle and seeing the area for yourself or visiting a website.

There were no wash rooms in medieval castles. People washed in their bed chambers, if they washed at all, from containers of water brought by their servants. Castles were never intended for anyone to live their comfortably or for long periods, which is why knights mainly lived at their manors.

Perhaps you meant to ask about latrines, which were usually built into the thickness of a wall, with access from the bed chamber or from the main hall. These had a narrow window without glass and a wooden plank with a hole in the centre - this was built to project out from the wall below so that body waste dropped down to land in a cesspit at the base of the wall (as at Dover castle) or into the moat (which eventually became a disgusting sewer).

It wasn't won exactly on the 19th of October King John died. But

Prince Louis excepted a large amount of money and went home. King Henry iii ended up King of England.

Concentric Castle are big in size. They not easy to attack by other empires who want to take you over. Concentric Castle were also good because they were made out of stone. Stone is flameproof and doesn't rot like Motte and Bailey castles.

In Europe. Like England, Ireland, Scotland.

Bricks weren't used to build castles, but stone and wood.

Queens travelled in carriages that were called chariots at the time, and had two wheels. I don't know how they differed from military chariots, but you can bet they were more comfortable. They also had six wheeled vehicles that apparently looked like little houses on wheels. I have read descriptions of these, but have not seen a picture. I don't know how they turned, but they seem to have had three axles.

I don't know how Eleanor of Aquitaine travelled on crusade, but since there were over 300 women with her, I would guess she might have travelled on horseback.

In towns and cities, and especially when they did not want to be noticed, queens had the option of travelling in sedan chairs.

If it wasn't possible to divert a stream the moat would be filled by rainwater in a few months. It rains a lot in England and Wales where a lot of the moated castles were built.

They were defended by an army of soldiers and many other things, such as a moat surrounding it. The moat would be good, as the attackers would need to row a boat through it or swim. They would be easy targets for the archers on the top of the castle.

Another thing that helps defend a stone castle is a curtain wall to prevent fires alighting and as a strong shield. These type of castles had high walls to make sure climbing intruders would need a longer time to get on top.

They had battlements like a crenel and merlon so that defenders can fire missiles through them.

Machiolations are boxes that have holes in them so that boiling oil or stones could be dropped onto attackers.

Hope this helped. (:

Rochester in Kent, England was a Roman town and there was a Roman fort there but the castle as it is now was not started until some 500 years after the Britain ceased to be part of The Roman Empire.

Rochester Castle is more usually described as a Norman Castle.

Doing a little research, I find that the least expensive castles, which were of wooden construction and very simple, cost 20 pounds and up, and the most expensive cost about 15,000 to 20,000 pounds. This was at a time when annual rent on a cottage was about 5 shillings and on a master craftsman's house was about 20 shillings or 1 pound. See the links below.

There is a building on Perryville road in the shape of a castle. But I dont know if it is a White Castle or not. I've been told both.

The Castle building on Perryville road was to be a children's dentist office. The castle experience an attempt to hide its true intentions and make it attractive to kids. As far as I know this has never opened.

Goodrich was built in the Welsh Marshes in a strategic point and for defense. The location of Welsh castles seem to be strategic in function and also filling a political and symbolic role. The castle showed that they were the true masters of all that they ruled.

Queen Elizabeth II lives in Windsor Castle on the weekends, usually arriving from London on Friday afternoons. She also may stay when there is an official state visit and the guest of honor is accommodated there.

During the week, unless she is on a tour or holiday, she lives at Buckingham Palace in London.

It depends on whether you were wealthy or poor and just needed a place to live. I also depended on what kind of structure your castle had!! Normal castles had approximately 20 rooms. 10 on the first level and 10 on the second!

Both. There was plenty of variety in medieval music.

A battlement is a wall that has openings like vertical slots at the top for archers to shoot through.

Castles were expensive to build, they were expensive to equip, their garrisons were expensive, and they fell apart of their own accord if they were not maintained at some expense. Once cannons were made useful and widespread, castles had lost a lot of their appeal.