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GCSE History · key term
An area required to supply resources and soldiers to a castle, governed by the castle’s commander rather than directly by an earl.
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Paper 2
Revise: Anglo-Saxon ResistanceSurrounding areas called castleries had to supply equipment and soldiers to a castle. They were controlled by its commander, the castellan, rather than directly by the earl, further reducing the earls’ authority.
Paper 2
An estate organised to provide the resources needed to sustain a castle.
Explain the limits of documentary evidence: Domesday Book refers to a ‘castlery’, not directly to Richmond Castle.
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Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, helps place Richmond’s beginnings in their historical context. It records Alan’s lands as a ‘castlery’: an estate organised to sustain a castle. It also names Richmond, then called Hindrelag, as Alan’s possession.