Arundel Castle, now home and ducal seat of their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, is the souths premiere castle and stately home.

Construction of a wooden fortification began in 1068, by Roger de Montgomery, who had been granted the Earldoms of Arundel and Shrewsbury, and consisted of a motte and two baileys. As the Earldom passed to the d'Albini family in the 12th century so the castles wooden structure began to be replaced in stone. The fine shell keep, barbican and undercroft to
the Great Hall can still be seen.

The d'Albinis'married into the FitzAlan family, in the 13th century, and it was they who expanded the castle and Earldom to its greatest extent. If there was a war, both against a foreign enermy or civil conflict, a FitzAlan was likely to be there with sword in hand. Marrying into the inheritances of the Warrens and Maltravers estates saw the Earldom of Arundel grow to one of the wealthiest and most powerful in the country. Despite a few casualties along the way, both by execution and death in war, the FitzAlan line continued well in to the late 16th century, eventually marrying into the Howards of Norfolk and so conbining the Earldom of Arundel with the Duke of Norfolk, in whose hands it remains today