Framlingham Castle

The castle!

Framlingham Castle is an important castle in the market town of
Framlingham, Suffolk, England. In common with many other buildings in
Suffolk, the main walls of the castle are faced with flint. It is unusual,
especially for a castle of the time, because it had no keep or central
stronghold, but merely a strong curtain wall defended by projecting towers
which enclosed the domestic buildings.

This Castle is said to have been founded by Raedwald, one of the most
powerful kings of the East Angles, between A.D. 599 and 624. It belonged
to Edmund, one of the Saxon monarchs of East Anglia, who, upon the
invasion of the Danes, fled from Dunwich, or Thetford, to this castle;
from which being driven, and being overtaken at Hegilsdon, (now Hoxne, a
distance of twelve miles from Framlingham) was put to death, being bound
to a tree and shot with arrows, A.D. 870. The castle remained in the hands
of the Danes for fifty years, when they were brought under the obedience
of the Saxons. William the Conqueror and his son Rufus retained the Castle
in their own possession; but the third son of William, Henry I., granted
it, with the Manor of Framlingham, to Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk. It
became the seat of the Earls of Norfolk and the Dukes of Norfolk, and
continued in this family till Roger Bigod.

One of its most famous residents was Mary Tudor before she was crowned
Queen.



	

Now is this a pretty moat or what?


Inside the castle was this 18th Century house








Again, those doors!