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Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. . Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050s, the Normans began to build motte and bailey and ringwork castles in large numbers to control their newly occupied territories in England and the ...
The Château de Doué-la-Fontaine, also known as Motte de la Chapelle and Doué-la-Fontaine Castle, is a motte and bailey castle in Doué-la-Fontaine, France that was built upon the foundations of an older 9th century Carolingian aula (hall). The later castle, built around the year 950, is widely believed to have been the oldest known castle ...
The medieval Vidin Castle built in the 9th century on the banks of the Danube in the old capital city of Vidin. Castles served a range of purposes, the most important of which were military, administrative, and domestic. As well as defensive structures, castles were also offensive tools which could be used as a base of operations in enemy ...
St Wystan's Church, Repton, Derbyshire (crypt c. 750, chancel walls ninth century) St Mary's Priory Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire (c. 930) All Saints' Church, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire; St Helen's Church, Skipwith, North Yorkshire (tower c. 960) St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire (tower c. 970, baptistery ...
The 9th century was a period from 801 (represented ... and the first castle fortifications since Roman times began to take form in simple "moat and bailey" castles ...
In the 9th century, the Bishop of Angers gave the Counts of Anjou permission to build a castle in Angers. [3] The construction of the first castle begun under Count Fulk III (970–1040), celebrated for his construction of dozens of castles, who built it to protect Anjou from the Normans. [4]
Pendennis Castle, Cornwall: a 16th-century Henrician Castle. Castles differed from earlier fortifications in that they were generally private fortified residences. Typically, a castle was the residence of a feudal lord, providing the owner with a secure base from which to control his lands, [12] and also a symbol of wealth and power.
Palatine Chapel (Octagon) in Aachen, Germany, now the central part of the cathedral Lorsch monastery gatehouse, Lorsch, Germany. Carolingian architecture is the style of north European Pre-Romanesque architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries, when the Carolingian dynasty dominated west European politics.