The Crew Needed to Build a Castle, and the Hazards They Faced

Baldwin had built a fine fortress at Sangatte arousing the envy of Reg-nault.

And when Regnault, Count of Boulogne saw this tower built at Sangatte, and when Baldwin Count of Guines and his men held the garrison there, and in this triumphed in making banquets and good cheer more than at any other place, and as he feared for himself and his country, his ire and indignation arose, and he gathered all his men of arms and people of Ostruicq near the fortress of Sangatte at the place of the stinking Sliviacas, in order to destroy and lay low the name and fortress of Sangatte, by constructing if possible a rival castle. Here he collected ditch diggers, wood workers, burden bearers, and ox drivers, and other workers, and architects of castles and ditches, assisted by men at arms and the principal men of his country, and the earth was raised into a mound, and around this a ditch dug for defense. Which those of Guines and Sangatte perceiving, being brave men and war-like, they were full of indignation and gave vent to their anger by giving mortal wounds by their archers and crossbowmen, and rushing upon those workmen of their adversary on all sides, setting in flight the chief men and the soldiers, who left the work unfinished after much loss of blood, where it lies today. And this is the situation at Sangatte so that even though of age the castle and its foundations are gone, the memory is not lost, but endures forever.