The knights are outside the bedchamber. What other rooms were there in a Medieval castle?
At the time of Chrtien de Troyes, the rooms where the lord of a castle, his family and his knights lived and ate and slept were in the Keep (called the Donjon), the rectangular tower inside the walls of a castle. This was meant to be the strongest and safest place. << Falaise Castle in Normandy in France This is the rectangular keep at Falaise Castle in Normandy in France (the round tower was added several hundred years afterwards). Later on, round keeps began to be built because rectangular ones could be attacked at the corners, which were their weakest parts. Before we look at the rooms inside, let's see how the different parts of a castle fit together.
