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The Earl of Leicester then expanded the castle once again, constructing new Tudor buildings and exploiting the medieval heritage of Kenilworth to produce a fashionable Renaissance palace.
With the victory of Henry VII at Bosworth, Kenilworth again received royal attention ; Henry visited frequently and had a tennis court constructed at the castle for his use.
The Queen Mother, Henrietta Maria, briefly regained the castle, with the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death Charles II gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon and Earl of Clarendon.
In 1162, Rhys again attempted to recover some of his lost lands, and captured Llandovery castle.
Shortly after the Battle of Stirling Bridge, Bruce again defected to the Scots ; he laid waste to Annandale and burned the English-held castle of Ayr.
Abandoning the deal he had just made, Stephen gathered his army again and sped north, but not quite fast enough — Ranulf escaped Lincoln and declared his support for the Empress, and Stephen was forced to place the castle under siege.
In 1919, at the end of the First World War, Versailles was put in the limelight again as the various treaties ending the war were signed in the castle proper and in the Grand Trianon.
However, Wiesbaden and the castle at Sonnenberg were again destroyed in 1283 in conflict with Eppstein.
They bring the animal to bay with the help of a maiden who traps it with her charms, appear to kill it, and bring it back to a castle ; in the last and most famous panel, " The Unicorn in Captivity ," the unicorn is shown alive again and happy, chained to a pomegranate tree surrounded by a fence, in a field of flowers.
Nevertheless the city castle stood firm again, a testament to Corfiot-Venetian steadfastness as well as the Venetian castle-building engineering skills.
The success was owed in no small part to the extensive fortifications, where Venetian castle engineering had proven itself once again against considerable odds.
Henry did not invade Gwynedd again and Owain was able to regain his eastern conquests, recapturing Rhuddlan castle in 1167 after a siege of three months.
However, no sooner they are there than word arrives that Lattens has fallen ill again, prompting a distraught UrLeyn to rush back to the castle.
At the same time resistance flared up again in western Mercia, where the forces of Eadric the Wild, together with his Welsh allies and further rebel forces from Cheshire and Shropshire, attacked the castle at Shrewsbury.
The peace was short lived, however, and the following year the Covenanters took the castle again, this time after a three-month siege, during which the garrison ran out of supplies.
The castle again became a prison during the First World War, when " Red Clydesider " David Kirkwood was confined here, and during the Second World War, when it housed German Luftwaffe pilots.
While riding with her to the king's castle, the doves alert him again about the blood on her foot.
After being defeated at the end, he grows to a much greater size, chasing Mario through the castle before Mario defeats him again.
He appeared yet again in Yoshi's Island DS as a playable character to recover his castle.
The castle originally served as a residence for the Kings of Mallorca whenever they were not staying at mainland Europe, and was seldom used as a residence again for viceroys during the 17th century.
The Ayyubid ruler of the Jazira, Al-Adil I, again strengthened the fortifications of the castle.
During the conflict between the counts of Anjou and Blois, the castle changed hands several times, and in 1038 Fulk captured the castle again.
Though he was unsuccessful in 992, Odo again tried to capture the castle two years later.

castle and stood
It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.
Just outside of the city walls stood a small castle.
At the junction between the inner and outer baileys, on the north side of the castle stood a tall five-sided keep, the eastern parts of which has been pulled down.
The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.
The historic city formed an oval, surrounded by a strong wall, high, dating from the 12th century CE, and was flanked with towers, while on a rock, stood a castle.
A letter to the editor of the Morning Chronicle of 2 January 1819 states that " On the 19th of November, as the servants belonging to the West Mains of Dunsinane-house, were employed in carrying away stones from the excavation made among the ruins that point out the site of Macbeth's castle here, part of the ground they stood on suddenly gave way, and sunk down about six feet, discovering a regularly built vault, about six feet long and four wide.
Until the last century the city was distinguished into three different groups: the walled city where the castle stood, and that was identified with the ancient acropolis greek-Roman urban center, the Village or the Upper Town on the hill slope and the New Town, plain.
The church stood apart from it and on a small hill stood the castle.
When Elizabeth arrived, time stood literally still, as the great tower clock of the castle was stopped for the time of her visit.
A motte and bailey castle stood on the banks of the river as it passed through Aberavon during the medieval period.
From this point a beacon-fire would raise the alarm as far as Tallaght, where an important castle stood.
Today there is a neo-Romanesque Abbey where the castle once stood.
Stolze accordingly started the theory that the royal castle of Persepolis stood close by Nakshi Rustam, and has sunk in course of time to shapeless heaps of earth, under which the remains may be concealed.
The name of the town is thought to derive from a castle ( demolished in the 19th century ) built by Felix Magennis in the late 16th century which stood at the mouth of the Shimna River.
Although it is mentioned by the name of Newcastle as early as 1433, so it is likely that another castle had previously stood there.
A castle stood in IJsselstein from 1300 to 1888 ; the tower survives.
The medieval hall stood south-west of the keep and was dismantled in 1796 during the remodelling of the castle.
Most of it dates from the 18th century, though a castle has stood on the site since the days of King John, the first Lord of Ireland.
Little remains of the castle structures that once stood here, save its stone ramparts and the base of a keep.
Behind the church on a slight hill a few kilometers distant stood the castle of the Count who owned all the land for miles around.
A Norman castle originally stood on the high ground in this spot.
# The castle from which arrows were shot at those who would enter the Wicket Gate is the stand-alone tower, the remnant of an abbey that stood beside the church.
And below me, as I stood on that hill-top transfixed, lay the twin craters, whose black walls stood up gauntly above the encroaching sand like the battlements and bastions of some great castle.

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