Stone Castles

The reason he burnt it down was to prove to the people that he was strong and powerful. (Answered by a 12 year old so you could probably get a better answer somewhere else but this is what I have read.)

King William the I (William the conqueror) didn't build all his castles out of stone. In fact, most of the castles he built were made out of wood. These wooden castles were called Motte and Bailey castles. The castles that hedid build out of stone were called Stone Keep Castles (Stone Castles). King William built the Stone Keep Castles out of stone because stone is stronger than wood, doesn't rot within a few years and doesn't burn easily.

William the Conqueror built two stone castles; Chepstow and the Tower of London. These were the first buildings in England that were not churches to be made from stone, and they were designed to impress and intimidate. Castles made from stone was an idea that did not catch on until the 12th Century.

A Motte and bailey castle is made of mud and wood and a stone castle is made of stone. A Motte and Bailey castle sets on fire easily, Rots and isn't very strong. Stone castles, however Does not set on fire easily, doesn't rot and is very strong.

Stone castles also have turrets and extra walls for added safety.

I am not sure what type of painter you mean. If you mean a house type painter there wasn't any. House painting is a modern job and there wasn't any paints made in the middle ages. Actually, all the way into the 1930's and 1940's to paint a house was very expensive and very few people had a house that was painted. If you mean an artist he would have been an artist for the church and painting religious subjects. The art of the time was all religious and egg tempera was used as paint on wood planks. Some still exists, but historical information in art mainly comes from books made by the monks and on tapestry.

They often had stone or tile floors and it was very cold. the main attraction in a bedroom was the fireplace. the fireplace was also made of stone with a stone chymminey. the beds were very big with long hevy canopies to keep the heat in. the bed was the most expensive piece of furnature in the manor. the colors were mostly very deep, rich colors. they did not have pastels back then.the windows had very long , heavy curtains that reached the floor. on the floor were many soft big rugs to keep their feet warm. the walls were decorated with embroidery and tapestry. the furnature was made of dark, solid wood. i hoped this helped!

It was built in the 12th century by William the conquerer. They were built to replace motte and bailey castles, as they were easy to destroy, because they were built out of wood. However, the stone keep were made out of stone, and so they were hard to defeat!!

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Castles usually have a mote, towers, and long halls. They also have special defenses inside and outside of the structure.

Contrary to popular belief, peasants often drank water. They knew that polluted water could cause sickness, though they did not know why, so they drank water drawn from wells or springs, if they could. We know this, because the waterworks of the city of London were built during the Middle Ages, and there was commentary at the time on the fact that people who drank water from the Thames were more likely to get sick than other people. We also can observe that most manors had clean water sources, such as wells. Also, the artesian well was invented during the Middle Ages.

Peasants also drank beer, cider, and wine, as local custom dictated. They probably rarely drank mead, as it was very expensive.

Many did and some didn't. There are a few that only had one corner that was reserved to pray in with a small alter. The Tower of London has a chapel that dates to the Normans. Three masses were said a day and if an area had a large church it took the place of the private chapel.

They changed because wooden castles could easily be set on fire and burntdown. However it's much harder to attack a stone castle

The oldest castle in Portugal was built by King Ferdinand II in 1842. It was built on the ruins of a monastery that was destroyed during a earthquake that happened in 1755. Built in the Romanticism style, the colors or red and yellow have been restored to their glory. The Pena National Palace is one of Portugal's most visited castles.

The Normans built around 500 castles of varies types and size throughout England and Wales after the invasion of England in 1066.

About 90 are still standing, many intact and still occupied and many in a state of ruin.

The link below has more good information about Norman Castles.

they are the carved stone at the top of towers in castles, and they were used so that defenders could fire from the open space and then hide in safety in the closed space. When you normally think of a castle wall, you see the top of the walls with this up and down pattern. this was a parapet.

Williams castles looks really Dusty and old

William the conqueror built a wooden Motte and Bailey Castle there in 1068. This Motte and Bailey design was replaced with a stone keep castle in 1260. For more details on this question, visit one of the related links below.

A home is a place where someone lives as their primary residence. For most people, that means a house, but it could include many other things, such as a cave.

A castle is a type of medieval fort. Some castles were the homes of members of medieval nobility, and when this was the case, the people of the noble's family might have an apartment in the great hall, with living areas separate by dividers, rather like a modern office, or there might have been a separate building in the castle where the lord and family lived. A large castle was very large and had enough land in it to provide limited grazing for horses or an orchard, for example.

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