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The Political World of Eleventh-Century France. Seal of Louis VI “the Fat,” King of France 1108-37 (on left) and seal of William the Conqueror as duke of Normany (on right). Seal of William I the Conqueror, duke of Normandy 1035-1087, and king of England 1066-87.
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Seal of Louis VI “the Fat,” King of France 1108-37(on left) and seal of William the Conqueror as duke of Normany (on right)
Seal of William I the Conqueror, duke of Normandy 1035-1087, and king of England 1066-87
Motte and Bailey Castle (drawing Jeffrey Thomas) (top) and Wiston Castle, Wales, c. 1140 (bottom) • Motte and Bailey castles were the earliest and least elaborate castles • The term refers to a hill (motte) and an enclosure at its base surrounded by a ditch and palisade. The hill was often man-made
Building a Motte and Bailey castle (Bayeux Tapestry, ca. 1075)
William the Conqueror takes the Castle of Dinan (Bayeux Tapestry, ca. 1075)
Count Fulk Nerra of Anjou’s castles (987-1040)from Nicholas Hooper and Matthew Bennett, Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768-1487 (Cambridge U. Press, 1996)
Fulk Nerra’s Castles: Loches (southeast Anjou, 980s), on right, and Beaugency (on the Loire between Blois and Orleans, 1020s), on left
Bayeux Tapestry: Bishop Odo of Bayeux (on left). Rochester Castle, built by Archbishop of Canterbury, William de Corbeil in 1127