how many knights/soldiers would live in the barracks on castle grounds?

Question

the castle where the king and queen reside, in the medieval times

Answer 1

knights would not live in the castle, they would be owners of land like somebody mentioned. Not to many soldiers live in the barracks- only about 30 to 50 as a castle needed few men to defend it due to the walls etc.

Answer 2

Knights typically didn't live on the Kings castle grounds.

Knights were land holders in their own right.

They had thier own manor houses and serfs working for them.

The knights were pledged to come when called by the king.

Usually the King had archers and pikemen who did live on castle grounds, and how many would depend on the King and how wealthy he was.

Some knights also were pledged to bring a certain amount of archers and pikemen with them when called by the king.

Think of the King as a Governor, and the Knights as city Mayors.

The governor controlled some troops directly and the mayors controled some troops directly.

When called by the king, the knights would bring thier troops, to where ever the king wanted them.

Answer 3

Depends on the finances of the Lord in question, soldiers were kept for security but were costly to maintain during peacetime, during squables with the neighbours there was a chance to pick up some loot, but they were also expected to use there serfs / slaves-workers as a militia, each Lord had a quota of men to be made available to the King in time of need, this ment supplying them with equipment and the training.
And in Great Britain so many men had to be trained in the use of the long-bow.

The rich got the top postions as knights and played at being the cavalry.

Answer 4

they were as susceptible to money flow as we are so it would fluctuate depending on that - see bernard cornwell's 'Lords of the North' and it's two companion novels to get an insight into how castles worked in ninth century England.Once you get used to the appalling casual random violence of 'Pale rider' Cornwell brings history alive and combines a spanking good adventure story while feeding you large dollops of detail; students should be compelled to read all of his stuff before being exposed to a history teacher who kills the subject for them.
The trilogy culminates in the battle of Ethandum where the Danes who had conquered almost of england were beaten back by king Alfred in 878 after they had trapped him in the wessex marshes;dwelling in cornwall and devon at that time were the ancient roman britains who spoke the old celtic tongues which still linger in the fringes today as latin was always just an officail language;Alfred and his people spoke the anglo-saxon imported by the german tribes of those names in the fifth century and this constitutes the 75% of our language which is made up of simple words of anglo saxon words; the latin borrowings come later for scientific terms - the danes brought their language and i always think that northern usages come from this.
Dig into Cornwell and do a chapter a day as itis rich heavy stuff.

Answer 5

I got out of the military back in July. All I had to pay in the barracks was my internet. My overall bills the whole time was my internet, cell phone, and paying off the loan on my car. It was nice. But your water, electricity, everything is covered for you.. even your food if you go to the chow hall every day, Heheh.

Answer 6

This guy above me is definitely the biggest a**hole here!!! He just want to go around and tell people that they can't spell. You can't spell either! It spelt MEANT! Don't answer a f**king question if you don't like it. Why do you care??? Go watch nightline or read something.....so you can answer our questions better!!!

Answer 7

...from several hundred to several thousand... that would all depend on the size of the "keep" and what "they" were doing militarily...