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In
1170 Robert fitzRandolph was granted license to build a
tower several hundreds yards from the family's motte
castle in Yorkshire. What resulted is one of the largest
keeps ever built in England, 108 x 78 feet in size and 60
feet tall. The great tower formed the domestic center of
the quadrangular curtain of buildings built in the next
century. For several hundred years after the Norman
conquest, Middleham was one of the great power bases in
the north of England. This was the boyhood home of
Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, and his
wife Anne, the second daughter of Richard Neville, Earl
of Warwick, and the place were Warwick the "Kingmaker"
held court. A picture of me with the Middleham model,
which was built from over 19,000 Lego bricks, can be seen
on the FAQ
page.
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