castle projectplease help!!!

Author	Topic: castle projectplease help!!!
akilli Member	posted 05-14-2006 04:45 AM hello my name is abel and i am 14 and in the 8th grade we have been given a project on medieval castles and to create a brochure my question is who introduced the first european style castles into britain?
Paul unregistered	posted 05-14-2006 10:18 AM Hi,although there were a small number of castles in Britain before the Norman conquest of 1066, the Normans or the Norman/French must be given the credit for the introduction of castles in Britain.
Malc_Chr Member	posted 05-15-2006 03:13 PM Edward the Confessor invited some Normans to come and help hom defend the welsh border. One of these knights, Richard Fitzcrob, built a fortress known as Richard's castle, near Ludlow. This was of a type new to England. There were a few private fortresses before that, as Paul said.