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.

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.