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Craigievar.

Raglan – the main gate.

The long gallery at Haddon Hall in Derbyshire.

Pendennis Castle in Cornwall is perhaps better regarded as a fort.

A victim of the Civil War:

Pontefract as it appeared on the eve of the conflict and a view of the site today.

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Aberystwyth Castle 105, 107, 116

Albini, William de 75–6, 80–1, 85, 90

Alfred, King 12–13

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
8, 23, 47–8

Ardres Castle 20–1

Arundel Castle 166, 265

Bailey, Dr Thomas 233–4, 235, 238, 242, 245, 252, 262

baileys 16, 20, 51, 68, 187

see also
motte-and-bailey castles ballistas 81–2

Banbury Castle 250

Barnwell Annalist 81, 85, 89, 90–1

bastles
see
peles La Batiaz Castle 122–3

Bayeux Castle 17–20

Bayeux Tapestry 17–20, 27, 28, 30, 40

Beauchamp, William 179

Beaumaris Castle 95, 136–9, 140, 143, 146, 265

Bell family, masons 220

Belvoir Castle 260

Berkhamsted Castle 31, 37

Birch, Colonel John 250, 253

Bodiam Castle 3, 5, 142–53, 157–61, 165, 166–78, 265

bombards 193–5, 196

Borthwick Castle 196–202, 210, 220–1, 265–6

Borthwick, William 197, 198–200

Bothwell Castle 186

Bristol Castle 239

Brown, Professor R. Allen 2, 4

Builth Castle 105, 107

Bungay Castle 58, 266

Burgh, Hubert de 87, 91

Burgundy, Duke of 194

burhs
13, 14, 31

Caerlaverock Castle 186

Caernarfon Castle 5, 94–5, 110, 113–16, 118, 126–32, 144

attack on 134

repairs 139, 140

slighting 265

Caerphilly Castle 83, 84, 98–101, 106, 146

Caister Castle 161

Cambridge Castle 33

cannon 241, 244

Carew Castle 229

Castle Rising 56, 58, 68

Caus Castle 42

cavalry 22–3

chapels 178

Charles the Bald 14, 15

Charles I 235–9, 246, 255, 259, 263

Charles II 264, 265

Château Gaillard 57

Chaucer, Geoffrey 143, 179–80

Chepstow Castle 54, 55, 229, 239

Chillon Castle 121–2, 126

Cholmondley, Henry 257, 258

Clanvowe, John 179

Clavering Castle 8

Clifford, Roger 108

Cobham, John de 158–9, 162

Colchester Castle 54, 55, 91, 266

concentricity 100

Conisbrough Castle 56, 58

constables 66

Conway Castle 95, 110, 120, 123–4, 126–7, 129, 131–2

attack on 134–6

construction 113–18

great hall 144

slighting 265

Cooling Castle 158–9

corbelling 218

Corbet, Roger 42

Corfe Castle 57, 90, 254

Cornhill, Reginald de 71, 75

cost of castles 58–60, 106, 132, 138

Craigievar Castle 218–21, 232

Crathes Castle 219

Cromwell, Oliver 255–6, 257–9, 263–4

crossbows 78–81

culverins 244

curtain-wall castles
see
enclosure castles Dafydd ap Gruffudd 108, 110

Dallingridge, Edward 142–3, 150–3, 155, 156–66 170–82

Dallingridge, Elizabeth 151, 176–7

Deganwy Castle 110–12, 135

Dinan Castle 17–20

Dol Castle 17–19

Domesday Book 43–4, 47

Douglas, Archibald ‘the Grim’ 186–7, 191–2

Douglas, James 190, 192–5, 203, 206

Douglas, William 186, 192–3, 203

Dover Castle 44, 57, 58, 91, 99, 265

chambers 68, 70

cost 60

established by William the Conqueror 29, 31

Edinburgh Castle 183–4

Edward the Confessor 7, 8–11, 25, 26

Edward I 95–7, 101–41, 143–4, 154, 183, 214

Edward III 154–5

enclosure castles 143, 186

English Civil Wars 224, 234–59

Ewyas Harold 8, 10, 11

Exchequer 59, 106

Fairfax, Thomas 247–8, 251–3, 256, 262

Farquharsons 211–12

feuding 211–12, 217, 221

Fitz Alan, Richard, Earl of Arundel 165–6, 175–6

Fitz Osbern, William 33, 54

Flint Castle 95, 105, 107, 108, 113, 119

flying bridges 19, 39

Forbes, William 218–20

forebuildings 55, 56

Framlingham Castle 91, 99

Froissart, Jean de 156

galleries 220, 230–2

gatehouses 99, 128, 132, 147–8, 149

Gloucester, Earl of 98, 101, 106, 109

Godwin, Earl 7, 9–11, 25

Goodrich Castle 250, 253

Gower, John 179

Grant, John 207–13

Great Oakham 68

gun-loops 147, 148, 226

Haddon Hall 232

halls 39, 67–9, 144, 170, 172, 210, 220, 228, 230

Hampton Court 227

Hamstead Marshal Castle 29

Hardwick Hall 229

Harlech Castle 95, 110, 118, 124, 126, 129, 131–2, 144

attack on 134

ditches 115

garderobes 123

labour force 117

sea 113

windows 120, 122

Harold II 25, 26–8, 45

Hastings, battle of 27, 28, 45

Hastings Castle 27

Hawarden Castle 108

Hedingham Castle 58, 63–4, 91, 265

chambers 66, 68

dummy floors 70

Hen Domen 36–42, 44, 48, 68

Henry I 57, 58–9

Henry II 57–8, 60, 64, 73, 74, 154

Henry III 91–2, 96, 98, 101, 103, 111, 121

Henry VIII 227

Herbert, Colonel 246

Hereford Castle 8

Heron, William 160

Hever Castle 158

Hooper, Captain John 243, 246, 250

The Hundred Years War 153–6, 157–8, 161, 225, 226

Huntingdon Castle 33

James I of Scotland 195

James II of Scotland 192–6, 203

James III of Scotland 195, 206

James IV of Scotland 206–8, 209, 213, 217

James V of Scotland 217

James VI of Scotland (James I of England) 216–18, 221

John of Fordun 206

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster 163–4, 165, 166, 179

John, King 51, 71–92, 154

Johnson, Dr Samuel 94

Johnson, Professor Matthew 3

keeps 50–93, 187–8

Kenilworth Castle 58, 229

Knowles, Robert 153, 155–6, 179

Lambert of Ardres 20–1

Langeais Castle 15

Lathom House 250

Lincoln Castle 33

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd 97–8, 101–5, 107, 108–10, 112, 114–15

Louis, Prince 74, 85, 91, 92

MacDonalds 205, 206, 208

MacDonald, John 206

machiolations 147–8, 197, 209, 226

Madog ap Llywelyn 134, 136

Magna Carta
72, 73, 74, 76, 92

mangonels 81

Mary Queen of Scots 217

master masons 119, 220

Maurice the Engineer 60

Mervinslaw Pele 214–16

moats 146–7

Monmouth Castle 239

Mons Meg 193–4

Montgomery Castle 260

see also
Hen Domen Montgomery, treaty of 98

Morgan, Colonel Thomas 242–5, 246, 252

mortars 248–51, 252

motte-and-bailey castles 16–23, 24, 29–45, 48–9, 51, 185–6

Mouse, William 164

murder-holes 128, 148

muskets 245

Newark Castle 91

Newcastle Castle 58, 60

North, Roger 231, 232

Norwich Castle 56, 57

Nottingham Castle 32, 260

Orderic Vitalis 45–6

Orford Castle 56, 58, 60, 68, 265

Paris, Matthew 80

Patrick, Catherine 212

Paulden, Captain Thomas 256–7, 265

Peak Castle 58

Peasants’ Revolt 162–3

peles 214–16

Pendennis Castle 247

Penshurst Place 158

perriers 82

Peter of Blois 64

Peter of Savoy 122–3, 124

Pevensey Castle 27

Pontefract Castle 256–60

putlog holes 120, 123–4

Raglan Castle 222–6, 228–30, 232–5, 238–54, 261–2, 264–5

Ralph of Coggeshall 77

Ralph of Mantes 9, 22

Rennes Castle 17–19

Rhuddlan Castle 95, 105–7, 108, 110, 113, 115, 119, 132