Why all the castles above the rivers? Territorial lords built them to collect tolls from boats using the river. I’m not sure how hilltop castles got money out of the boats way down on the river, but the castles must have paid, or they wouldn’t be so plentiful.
Why all the castles above the rivers? Territorial lords built them to collect tolls from boats using the river. I’m not sure how hilltop castles got money out of the boats way down on the river, but the castles must have paid, or they wouldn’t be so plentiful.