The Political World of Eleventh-Century France
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The Political World of Eleventh-Century France
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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)
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Seal of William I the Conqueror, duke of Normandy 1035-1087, and king of England 1066-87
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King Harold II (Godwineson), 1066 Bayeux Tapestry, ca. 1070
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William the Conqueror feasting
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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
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Building a Motte and Bailey castle (Bayeux Tapestry, ca. 1075)
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William the Conqueror takes the Castle of Dinan (Bayeux Tapestry, ca. 1075)
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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)
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Fulk Nerra’s Castles: Loches (southeast Anjou, 980s), on right, and Beaugency (on the Loire between Blois and
Orleans, 1020s), on left
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Charging Knights from the Bayeux Tapestry (c.1075)
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Knights from Codex of 1028 (Encyclopedia of Mauro Rabano)
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Bayeux Tapestry: Bishop Odo of Bayeux (on left). Rochester Castle, built by Archbishop of Canterbury,
William de Corbeil in 1127