The transition from these earlier noble estates to Norman castles was gradual ... in an opulent hall at Bosham before ...

The best preserved early Norman castle in Northern Ireland is Carrickfergus ... more concerned with protecting their valuable lands in France and there was a loosening of control.

And just as the first Norman castle in Wales was built at Chepstow ... In the middle of the 12th century another monastic order from France, the Cistercians, came to Wales. Within some 30 years ...