I am under the impression that in the 300-year period between the Norman Conquest and Anarchy and the War of the Roses England was generally spared from foreign invasion and private wars between magnates, so that unless he lived on the Scottish or Welsh border, an English tenant on a manor did not need to worry about having to deal with war and armed men looting and torching his village. Is that a fair statement?
As a follow up question: was there much need for manor houses to be fortified and for private castles to be built and maintained in the countryside?
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