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unusual facts about motte and bailey



Adulterine castle

During the civil war of the Anarchy, fought between the factions of Stephen of England and the Empress Matilda, both sides built a number of new castles to defend their territories and act as bases for expansion, typically motte and bailey designs such as those at Winchcombe, Upper Slaughter, or Bampton by the Empress's followers.

Barland Castle

Barland Castle was a motte and bailey-style fortification located near the tiny village of Old Radnor, in Radnorshire (modern-day Powys), Wales.

Beaudesert Castle

A motte and bailey castle was built following the Norman conquest possibly on the site of an ancient British fort.

Bleddfa Castle

Bleddfa Castle (sometimes referred to as Bledeach or Bledvach Castle) was a motte and bailey structure near Llangunllo in modern-day Powys, Wales.

Buddugre Castle

Buddugre Castle (sometimes referred to as Tomen Bedd-Ugre) was a motte and bailey defensive fortification overlooking the River Ithon, located in the community of Llanddewi Ystradenny, in Radnorshire (modern-day Powys), Wales.

Castle Nimble

Castle Nimble (also called Knapp; Maes Hyfaidd; Maes Hyvaidd) was a motte and bailey defensive fortification near Old Radnor, in Radnorshire (modern-day Powys), Wales.

Castles in South Yorkshire

Its castle was a motte and bailey, known from a seventeenth-century sketch of the motte made by Roger Dodsworth.

Crewkerne Castle

Crewkerne Castle (which is also known as Castle Hill or Croft Castle) was possibly a Norman motte and bailey castle on a mound that is situated north-west of the town of Crewkerne in Somerset, England.

Crug Eryr Castle

Crug Eryr Castle (Castell Crug Eryr) was a motte and bailey-style castle located atop a hill adjacent to the A44 about 2 miles northwest of Llanfihangel Nant Melan, near New Radnor in Powys, Wales.

Denham Castle

Denham Castle, also known as Castle Holes, is a medieval motte and bailey castle near the village of Gazeley, Suffolk, England.

Great Ashfield Castle

Great Ashfield Castle, also known locally as Castle Hill, is a medieval motte and bailey castle near the village of Great Ashfield, Suffolk, England.

Higham Gobion Castle

The castle was a timber motte and bailey fortress, built by the Gobion family, from which the castle and neighboring town derive their name, sometime after the Norman Invasion of 1066.

Pen y Clawdd Castle

Pen y Clawdd Castle was a Norman-era motte and bailey style castle protected by a double moat, near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in southern Wales.

Restormel Castle

Restormel Castle was probably originally built after the Norman conquest of England as a motte and bailey castle around 1100 by Baldwin Fitz Turstin, the local sheriff.

Ystrad Meurig

The village also contains the slight remains of what was thought to be a simple motte and bailey castle founded by Gilbert de Clare in the 12th century.


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Brandon Castle

It was originally a 12th-century earthwork motte and bailey fortress founded by Geoffrey de Clinton.

Cymbeline's Castle

Cymbeline's Castle, also known as Cymbeline's Mound and Belinus's Castle, is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in woods north of Great Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England.

Geoffrey Alselin

Alselin began the construction of the Motte-and-Bailey castle that stood at Laxton, Nottinghamshire, although it would not be completed until after Alselin's son-in-law, Robert de Caux, was appointed the hereditary Keeper of the Royal Forests of Nottingham.

Laxton Castle

The Motte-and-bailey castle first built on the spot seems to have been constructed very soon after the Norman Invasion, perhaps under order of Geoffrey Alselin who was granted the property in 1066, though more likely under order of Alselin's son-in-law, Robert de Caux, who used Laxton as his seat after Alselin's death.

Milden Castle

Milden Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle on Foxburrow hill in Milden, a village in Suffolk, England.

Tower of Kamyanyets

This type of the motte-and-bailey castle appeared in the 10th and 11th centuries between the Rhine and Loire rivers and eventually spread to most of western Europe and even to the area of the present Belarus.