It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

The battle, as was the tradition, was named after a nearby castle called Azincourt.

The castle of Abensberg was destroyed during the Thirty Years ' War, although the city had bought a guarantee of protection from the Swesidh general, Carl Gustaf Wrangel.

On 7 July 2006, the new Town Museum of Abensberg was opened in the former duke's castle in the town.

Agnes Maria of Andechs-Merania ( died 1201 ), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV ( died 1204 ), who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria and from 1183 duke of Merania ( Istria ).

She died broken-hearted in July of the next year, at the castle of Poissy, and was buried in the Convent of St Corentin, near Nantes.

Even after the Norman Conquest, Ealdred still controlled some events in Worcester, and it was Ealdred, not Wulfstan, who opposed Urse d ' Abetot's attempt to extend the castle of Worcester into the cathedral after the Norman Conquest.

While Andronikos was on one of his incursions, his castle was surprised by the governor of Trebizond, and Theodora and her two children were captured and sent to Constantinople.

He grew up at the castle of his father, and was brought up alongside his older brother Esbern Snare and the young prince Valdemar, who later became King Valdemar I of Denmark.

In 1167, Absalon was granted the land around the city of " Havn " (), and built there a castle in the coastal defense against the Wends.

He was the son of Raymond IV of Toulouse by his third wife, Elvira of Castile, was born in the castle of Mont-Pelerin, Tripoli, in today's Lebanon.

The castle was seat of the County of Ascania, a title that was later subsumed into the titles of the princes of Anhalt.

Soon, however, the Duke of Canossa, Alberto Uzzo, who had been advised of the rescue, arrived and carried her off to his castle, where she was besieged by Berengar.

The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.

Nowadays the castle still belongs to the Academy of Science to which it was bequeathed in 1895 on condition of its producing within fifty years a catalogue of half-a-million stars.

The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.

The Castello Vecchio (" old castle "), a ruined citadel, was believed to be Roman but turned out to have Gothic features.

The name Afyon Kara Hisar ( literally opium black castle in Turkish ), since opium was widely grown here and there is a castle on a black rock.

Abd ar-Rahman then turned and followed the coast by Montemayor, near Benahavís, Suhayl ( Fuengirola ) and another castle called Turrus or Turrus Jusayn ( identified by Évariste Lévi-Provençal as Ojén ).

The collegiate church and castle were to be turned into a shrine for Nazi Germany.

As the war turned favorable to him, Wladyslaw I, with the assistance of the Bishop of Krakow, Paul of Półkozic ( who was later imprisoned after rebelled against him ), managed to besiege and capture Wawel castle and forced the Silesian troops to retreat to Skała.

During the Wars of the Roses, Richard, Duke of York, seized the castle and turned it into one of his main strongholds.

When his sister Isabel wed John FitzAlan of Clun, the castle and earldom were turned over to him.

Thomas's son, Theophilus Howard, fell heavily into debt and sold the castle, the estate and the former Great Park to Sir Robert Hitcham in 1635 for £ 14, 000 ; as with several other established parks, such as Eye, Kelsale and Hundon, the Great Park was broken up turned into separate estates.

In 1523, the castle park was turned into one of the largest zoos in Europe.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they turned the castle into a political prison for communists, homosexuals, Jews and other " undesirables ".

The work was completed under the supervision of Edward Conway's overseer William Milward, despite opposition from the leading citizens of Conwy, and turned the castle into a total ruin.

The following year the two daughters Josce de Dinan had with Sybil de Lacy petitioned the king regarding the ownership of the town and castle of Ludlow but were turned down.

After quickly taking the fortified abbey of Saint-Pierre sur Dives ( near Falaise ), Henry turned south and besieged the castle of Tinchebray, on a hill above the town.

The mirror allows her to see what is going on back at the Beast's castle, and the ring allows her to return to the castle in an instant when turned three times around her finger.

He never referred to it as a castle, although his neighbors often did, but it " summarizes the success upon which all his dreams were built ," dreams that " turned his picturesque estate into a small boy ’ s dream of paradise.

The spring, however, began to flow in all directions and thereafter the milk turned into inedible earth, leaving not only the original perpetrators but all the former inhabitants of the now destroyed castle to starve.

In 1811, the castle was turned into a cotton-weaving factory, thus launching Faverges into the Industrial Revolution.

The aspect of the summer campaign was completely turned about, and the outer moat of Osaka Castle was buried, leaving the castle exposed ; the Osaka side judged a siege defense to be impossible, and intercepted Tokugawa's side going from Kyoto to Osaka in the field.

He is defeated an turned into a Sand castle.

He also founded the " Gesellschaft zur Förderung und Pflege deutscher Kulturdenkmäler " (" Society for the preservation and fostering of German cultural monuments "), which was primarily dedicated to restoring Wewelsburg, an old castle that was supposed to be turned into a cultural and scientific headquarters of the SS at Himmler's request.

Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull turned up at the castle hand over party, with Jagger telling the newspapers " We just came to loon about.

Apart from the keep the main structures surviving in the castle consist of the following: an early 14th century three towered fore work defending the keep entrance and including stables within it and which was accessed by a stone causeway crossing the partly in filled ditch of the earlier ringwork ; a huge late 13th-century three aisled great hall with an under croft beneath its east end opening via a water gate to the river ; a stout defensive tower turned into a solar in the late 13th century at the northern angle of the castle ; a smaller aisled hall added to the east end of the great hall in the 14th or 15th century ; a building ( possibly the mint ) added to the east end of the latter hall ; two 15th-or 16th-century stone buildings added inside the town gatehouse, 17th-century buildings added to the end of the hall range and to the north side of the keep and a series of lime kilns, one dating from the late 12th century the remainder from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

After the death of his father-in-law in 1766, Louis XV of France annexed the duchy and turned the castle into a barracks, but much of the original construction has survived, and what remains is open to the public and the chateau's intricate parterre gardens, designed by Yves Hours ( a pupil of André Le Nôtre ) in 1711 and Louis de Nesle in 1724, are a public park today.

The necromantic change from the palace at Sparta to Faust's Gothic castle directs us to the aesthetic meaning of the myth -- the translation of antique drama into Shakespearean and romantic guise.

Accepting his supposed hospitality, at a traditional time for settling differences, the influential Welsh leaders of the surrounding areas nearly all arrived, proffered their swords as tokens of peaceful intent to servants and, unarmed, were ushered further into the castle where de Braose's armed soldiers hacked them down in cold blood.

Modern versions typically retain Camelot's lack of precise location and its status as a symbol of the Arthurian world, though they typically transform the castle itself into romantically lavish visions of a High Middle Ages palace.

For the general reader the Treasure is appealing because she gives fascinating glimpses into women's lives in 1400, from the great lady in the castle down to the merchant's wife, the servant, and the peasant.

Beginning with Watermark, Enya began to attract the attention of stalkers, several of whom succeeded in breaking into her castle and attacking some of the staff.

This setting of the novel, a castle or religious building, often one fallen into disrepair, was an essential element of the Gothic novel.

This secret movement mirrors one of the plots of the story, specifically the secrets surrounding Manfred ’ s possession of the castle and how it came into his family.

The basic premise was to divide the players into two teams — attackers and defenders — with each side either assaulting or protecting the castle respectively.

She was captured and confined to the castle, but escaped by leaping from a window into the moat below.

The annals of Margam Abbey suggest that " John had captured Arthur and kept him alive in prison for some time in the castle of Rouen ... when John was drunk he slew Arthur with his own hand and tying a heavy stone to the body cast it into the Seine.

John of Gaunt spent lavishly in the late 14th century, turning the medieval castle into a palace fortress designed in the latest perpendicular style.

The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and partially moved into the left-hand court inside the castle itself, possibly to add to the anachronistic appearance.

The conflict spread across England and Kenilworth was garrisoned by Henry II's forces ; Geoffrey II de Clinton died in this period and the castle was taken fully into royal possession, a sign of its military importance.

He abandoned the Pleasance and had part of the timber construction moved into the base court of the castle.

The island is semi-fictionalised into " Lindisfarne Island " and the castle is " Rob Roy ".

A final technique was to bore into the enemy walls, however this was not nearly as effective as other methods due to the thickness of castle walls.

Janet runs screaming into Rocky's arms and is slapped and chased through the halls of the castle by a jealous Frank.

For instance, they move from the woods with the Tragedians into the castle to a conversation with the king and queen without actually saying they want to enter Elsinore.

The castle was " notoriously strong ", but in a two-month siege the defenders were battered into submission by Richard's siege engines.

At the same time, James Douglas made his first foray for Bruce into south-western Scotland, attacking and burning his own castle in Douglasdale.

He destroyed the town built outside the city's castle and killed most of its inhabitants after they were refused entry into the castle.