| Sir Edmund Bedingfeld built Oxburgh Hall during the final quarter of the 15thC, when the Wars of the Roses were at their height. Any large undertaking of this kind required the permission of the king and the official 'licence to crenellate' was granted by Edward IV in 1482. The defences were more for show than real protection. The large central windows in the gatehouse lit up the principal rooms for the lord and lady, but would not have been much use against attack. It was these rooms which became the King's and Queen's rooms in 1487 when the new King Henry VII and his Yorkist wife Elizabeth came to stay. |
