A bit of history:

Bodiam Castle was built between about 1380-85 by Sir Edward Dallingridge and his wife Elizabeth. They lived in a turbulent age: from the Black Death in 1348; through the protest and social upheaval it provoked; to the royal disputes that led to the wars of the Roses.
Throughout the second half of the fourteenth century, England was at war with France, which brought Sir Edward prestige and wealth. Sir Edward was a soldier of fortune in north-western France from 1367, Knight of the Shire of Sussex after 1379 and Warden of London in 1392, a promotion made by King Richard II (reigned 1377-99).  As a servant of King Richard, Dallingridge reached the highest circles of English society.  Bodiam Castle opens a window onto late fourteenth-century England, the world of Chaucer. 

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