Wednesday 1 February 2017

A knight's tale


In preparation for our trip to Leeds Castle, blog everything you have found out about castles in this country.
Think about how and why they were built, the different features of a castle and their purpose and any famous examples.

28 comments:

  1. iv`e found out that most of the places there like the gatehouse have bin there since the tudor period but the castle is very ancient. did you know that henry vlll owned it. back in the tudor times royal peaple lived there the maze must of been added on

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    1. What other features of castles can you tell us about Marius?

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  2. Leeds castle is 900 years old

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  3. because it made by the Tudors time Henry 8th live there and he dad Henry the 7th and queen Elizabeth the 2 live all the queen and king live if your are not a queen or king you will get your head cult of.

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  4. In Leeds castle in the middle of the Maze under
    the ground there is a Grotto.

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  5. in the Tudors time there was a door brig and in Leeds castle for the castle, and in the Tudors there was a big scold were you get lost and in the Leeds castle there is one to so it is fan for both in the Tudors and in Leeds caste.

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  6. did you know that leeds casile is 900 years old .it also people from tudor times did wichcraft to mak henry v to die .there is a groto in the middle of the maze and tunls evrywere were henry viii wives when to hide in wore

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  7. Did you now that king Henry VIII didn't care about Leeds castle

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  8. the main reasons why they built it Is because it was a place for protection for the kings and queens and for members of the royal family there will be 11 knights guarding the castle and stand there and fight until they die!

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  9. Tudors built Castles because it was used as a fortress and a place to think of strategies and methods to attack the enemy which was France , at the time the King of France was King Francis , in French it means France. After the Tudors would attack the enemies with the best strategy they came up with and conquered many countries accept for Spain because the Spanish Armada conquered many aswell.

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    1. What are your favourite Tudor castles and why?

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  10. Castles were built for royalty. It was like a home to them. The protective walls were to stop enemies from attacking. The battlements were one of the features along with: turrets, towers and portcullises. Famous castles are: Leeds,Warwick and Bodiam Castle.

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    1. Great, someone has told me about the architectural features of a castle! What is a portcullis Fathia? What is the most unusual feature you can find out?

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    2. Castle stairs are always spiraling in a clockwise direction in every castle. A portcullis is a metal grate that can be lowered into small grooves at the front of a castle.

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  11. The reason why it was built because the King and queen need to have a really royal palace they can't just go to a ordinary house and do nothing they need to something that they want to do.They also wanted to build a castle because some of there family members would join and come to the palace as well and in joy the time in the castle.

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  12. One of the reasons that you see the moat is that. Edward had a Spanish queen and wanted Leeds castle to make her feel at her own country.

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  13. Did you know that Leeds castle keeped prisoners in the second part. But water level but one day they burned down the castle. They made a reabilt the second part.

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  14. Leeds castle was built in 1119 by Robert de Crevecoeur, descendant of one of William the Conqueror's Lords, to replace the earlier Saxon manor of Esledes. It passed in Royal hands in 1278 and became part of the Queen of England's dower-th settlement widowed queens received upon the death of their husbands.

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  15. The reason why it was. Built because the queen and king need to have a really Royal palace they can't just go to ordinary. house and do nothing they need to something that they Some of the castle Buried down And so they build together a again 900 year ago millions of people feud with France so two the feud was brutal So the two King was go to meet together had a party dragon came make fireworks Henry 8th want back home.

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  16. Did you know that the last owners of Leeds castle asked here children if they wanted the castle they said no because they don't need to live In a castle they can live in a manchion, and they just said Leeds castle can be for people to look around to enjoy but not to change it into a musium. Also people can stay and sleep at Leeds castle after a party or a wedding.Leeds castle was built because if a royal family was going war and it's like 10:00pm in the afternoon thay are tired so they can stay in a castle because they cant go to some weird house and sleep there and thay are a royal family so there rich they can buy everything.

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    1. Read the question carefully Melissa. What are the features of a castle? Fathia mentioned that castles have portcullis', Jahvon wrote about moats, what can you find out?

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  17. what i found out in leads castle lots of people ownedthe place the turets are sometimes used for war and other parts of the castle

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  18. leeds castle changed about 5 times leeds castle did not break down for a long time because there are strong bits in it that can not break easily

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  19. Parts of features of the castle is a gate and moats,and lots of other stuff.the reason they made castles was for so if the queens wanted to go somewere they can just go there like for a holliday and it's private were just kings queens princess and prince that's why they made castles

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  20. When we was there I saw the portcullis and the moat surrounding the castle, the castle's moat was filled of urine and wast. Because that is is were they would pee because in the Tudor times they didn't have toilets.

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  21. the castle was built for protection.

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