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Below are short biographies for people who helped shape medieval history and the evolution of castles.

The Monarchs

England (1042 - 1066)

Edward the Confessor

11th Century

Robert Curthose
William FitzOsbern

Tostig Godwinson
Roger de Montgomery

Robert de Mortain
Robert de Mowbray

Richard of Normandy

12th Century

William d'Aubigny
Richard de Clare

William de Lanvalei III
Roger de Quincy

Robert de Ros

Eustace de Vesci

13th Century

Henry of Almain
Humphrey de Bohun
John of Brittany
Neil de Brus
Elizabeth de Burgh
Robert de Clifford

Hugh de Cressingham
Hugh le Despenser
Hugh Despenser (Elder)
John FitzGeoffrey
Fulk FitzWarin
Andrew Harclay

Henry de Hastings
Henry de Lacy
Henry of Lancaster
Thomas of Lancaster
Philip Marmion
Guy de Montfort

Henry de Montfort
Simon de Montfort (Younger)
Gilbert Talbot
Henry de Tyeys
John de Vesci

14th Century

Thomas Beaufort
Thomas of Brotherton

Richard FitzAlan
Henry Percy

Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Richard le Scrope

Richard Talbot
Étienne de Vignolles

15th Century

Archibald Campbell
Jean de Dunois

Philipp von Katzenelnbogen
Edward Stafford

William Stanley
Alexander Stewart

Edmund Tudor

16th Century

James Hepburn

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