Castle Ward

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Alex Maxwell Findlater

Castle Ward

Legg inn av Alex Maxwell Findlater » 05 jul 2006 07:12:15

Can anyone please help me. I am looking at service of Castle Ward in
about 1200 AD. I have read that 40 days were required from each
knight. Did they have to be knights, and how was the ward managed, how
many knights at one time, so how many fiefs were required. Did the
number relate significantly to the size of the castle, or was it just
one knight with his followers at a time?

I understand that by the 1300s the service had been commuted to 20s per
knight's fee. Was this a common or standard amount?

All the information I have given above is in relatiion to Dumfries
Castle, but I have read of Castle Ward in relation to Durham or
Newcastle or Berwick, I cannot remember which, as late as the C16.
Probably Berwick, because it was to do with the guarding of the border.

Any help gratefully received. Thanks.

Matt Tompkins

Re: Castle Ward

Legg inn av Matt Tompkins » 05 jul 2006 11:09:06

Alex Maxwell Findlater wrote:
Can anyone please help me. I am looking at service of Castle Ward in
about 1200 AD. I have read that 40 days were required from each
knight. Did they have to be knights, and how was the ward managed, how
many knights at one time, so how many fiefs were required. Did the
number relate significantly to the size of the castle, or was it just
one knight with his followers at a time?

I understand that by the 1300s the service had been commuted to 20s per
knight's fee. Was this a common or standard amount?

All the information I have given above is in relatiion to Dumfries
Castle, but I have read of Castle Ward in relation to Durham or
Newcastle or Berwick, I cannot remember which, as late as the C16.
Probably Berwick, because it was to do with the guarding of the border.

Any help gratefully received. Thanks.

Hello Alex,

you'll find a good discussion of the nature of castle guard and the
payments it was commuted for in a 1935 article by Sydney Painter in the
American Historical Review - I hope this link will lead to it:
http://www.jstor.org/view/00028762/di951221/95p00034/0

Painter revisited the subject in his 'Studies in the History of the
English Feudal Barony (Baltimore, 1953), but that isn't available
on-line. I imagine more has been written on the subject since then,
but I'm afraid I don't know what is the best recent account.

Regards,

Matt Tompkins

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