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Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages

Note 73 — Chapter IV · THE PROGRESS OF ATTACK AND DEFENCE

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Thus Henry I., in his wars with Louis VI., conducted one blockade by building two castles, which the enemy called derisively Malassis and Gête-aux-Lièvres (Ord. Vit., xii. 1). So also (ibid., xii. 22) his castle of Mäte-Putain near Rouen. Many other instances might be named.

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