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The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles

Note 195 — Chapter V · THE ORIGIN OF PRIVATE CASTLES

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Ducange conjectured that the motte-castle took its origin in Flanders, but it was probably the passage cited above from Lambert which led him to this conclusion. See art. “Mota” in Ducange’s Glossarium.

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