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these burnt through they of course
collapsed and the waU overhead
fell, thus causing a brtsch through
which the attackers entered the
fortress.
Motte and BaiJey - The name given
to the early type of castle just prior
to and immediately after the Nor- Pavilion - A gaily decorated and
man conquest. Consisted of a srnall highly coloured tent used by a
hill, sometimes natural and some- Knight at a tournament in which
Cimes man made, on to which a to put on his amour and to await
stout wooden structure was built. his summons to fight.
The whole of the motte was sur-
rounded by a deep ditch which Poitiers, Battle of - One of the
became the forerunner of the moat. Black Princes' great victories in
France in which, with only 6,000
men, he defeated a vastly superior
French army numbering some
50,000 soldiers. The principal attri-
bute of the English army was its
strict cornpliance with orders and
its discipline throughout, which has
been the means of bringing about a
French defeat on so many occa-
sions.
Odo - Bishop of Bayeaux and half
brother to William the Conquerer.
PortcuIlis - A strong grating. simi-
Though he was made a Bishop lar in design to a farmer's harrow,
at approximately 15 years old his constructed of heavy wood and shod
rnind was filled with other than with metal, which slid down in
church matters. He was jmprisoned grooves to close a castle gateway,
by William 1 for his pride and
tyranny and was later banished by Posteni - A small back gateway fre-
William II. He Cook an extremely quently found in a castle. It was
active part in the battle of Hastings designed as a rneans of exit which
in which he used a mace as his would probably be unknown to a
weapon thus salving his conscience besieging force and through which
in that a churchman rnust never a messenger could be sent.
shed blood, the mace being looked
upon as a bruising weapon only,
Open Conrse - A joust between
Knights run in the open with no
barrier between. Sometime calleci R
Free Course.
Outremer - Literally meaning ' over Richard 1. 1189-1199 - Richard
seas ', a general narne frequentIy Coeur-de-Lion. GeneraUy looked
used to cover the territories in upon as one of the most glamorous
whjch the crusades took place. of England's Kings. He was un-