Motte and Bailey Castles

Arundel Castle has been attacked 3 times. In 1102, Henry I took the castle from Robert de Belleme, in 1139 King Stephen attacked as the Castle was sheltering the Empress Matilda and in 1643, the Castle was held by the Royalists and taken by the besieging forces of General Waller.

Red Gilbert had ruled over Caerphilly Castle. After dying in 1295, his son-in-law, Hugh Despenser, acquires the castle and family lands.

yes, Skipton castle is a stone keep castle

Motte and Bailey castles could have been located all over France and Britain but now you can't because th ey have all rotted down or have been replaced by Stone Keep castles (Stone Castles). These Motte and Bailey castles were built by King William I (William the Conqueror) in the 11th century. BANANAMAN123(NAME OF USER) EDITED FROM HER ON:::They were built by William in Britain after he took over England in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings.

they were built to scare the englishmen and to defend him.

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William also put these in to keep the citizens in order, for example, lets say a guy named jack did crimes... he wouldn't any more because the castles had guards in and he would be arrested if he did .PLEASE LIKE:)

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The name Bailey originates from deep, deep Germany.=It was a popular name as it was one of a kind of name, Lots of people started naming theyre boys Bailey, But if you searched then you would rarely find a Girl called Bailey.==It is used now in all over the world as Male and Female First and Lastnames!!==your welcome :D:D=

not very often now but in the middle ages barons did along with his soldiers, servants, jokers, cooks etc.

The motte varied in size from 50 to 120 feet high and 50-300 feet across. The tower by the motte was typically three levels high. The size of the castle depended on how much was needed to impress the population for political and military reasons.

When the Normans won their victory in the Battle of hastings of 1066, motte and bailey castles started to appear. The first castle was built somewhere in France.

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The Normans were the first to build motte and bailey castles. Their first castle built was at Mont Glonme on the river Loire in France, 990.

motte is the highest mound in the barons area with a tall house or castle called the keep and the bailey is the area below that it like a court yard and leads up to the keep but is protected by the palissade (which is the large tall fence surronding the motte and bailey castle and the drawbrige. this is to keep enemys at bay!!!!!

black-smiths and soldiers mainly lived in motte and bailey castles!.x

Nobody knows how it was built because it was founded in 1120, by the powerful normans and was hugely enlarge by King John of Gaunt

Square Keep castles were really to house William's Knights and protect people from attacks. Though they also showed power and skill, as they were made of stone the power of it was stone was very expensive and the skill? It was hard to build with stone.

the motte and bailey castles were used for many different things such as: a way of William paying back his troops, a safe base for the soldiers and a way of watching over the towns people.

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yes, all types of farm animals: sheep, cows, horses, pigs and chickens

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He didn't he made them to assist in taking over Great Britain

Durin the time he was alive before he conquered England.

The most widely known castles are the medieval castles of Europe. However, a castle is a fortification in which people lived.

They can also be found in Japan, China and other places. The Osaka Castle, for example, is one of the more famous castles in Japan.

During the seige, tunnels were excavated under deep under the stone walls of castles. The carcasses of pigs, which in those days were more fat than lean were burnt in the excavations with any other flammable material available. This weakened the Castle structure and aided in the collapse of the walls

yes, motte and bailey castles were very easy to attack as they were made out of wood and could burn very easily. whereas if you were talking about stone keep castles which were pretty much like motte and bailey castles then it would take time to burn as they were made out of stone.

A stone keep castle is stronger than a motte and bailey castle because motte and bailey castles were made out of wood. Stone is stronger than wood for these reasons: * Wood rots quickly (stone dosn't) * Wood burns (stone dosn't) * Wood isn't as strong as stone