Castle+life

Castle Life By:Jake Gebhart  In the middle ages all the Kings and Queens,Lords and Ladys all had to live in castles. These castles were ment to protect the people living in them. They used them to show strength to there enemies. During the Middle Age more than 1500 castles had been built all over Europe. The royal family controlled the castle and ran it a long with all the help.The king the queen, the bishop, the lord, the lady, knights, merchant’s, nuns, and peasants all lived in the castle  The castles were mainly located all across Europe Where the castles were built determined what they would look like in France had tall pointed roofs on the towers in Spain they had highly decorated stone work. But the main place where castles were located was in Europe and Japan.  The master masons played a big part in the building of the castles; the first step in the building of the castles was choosing a master mason. The master mason or the master of the works were the chief architect, the project manager, the accountant and the one who oversaw the building of the castle like contractors of today. One of the most famous of the Master masons was Master James of St. George; he earned 5 times as much as any of the castle builders of the middle ages! (One of his many castles that he built in the middle ages in Europe is at lower left.)Other jobs of castle building were masons carpenters smiths general workers quarrymen and plasters and painters. Castles of the Middle Ages had three massive walls surrounding the whole castle (see below middle) and they had tall towers for protection and defense and the main castle for maximum protection against invaders. The castles were used to control and defend a large area and all its surroundings





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