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.

In 1798, James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife, acquired Balmoral, and leased the castle.

During this latter period of ownership the castle fell into a poor state of repair, during which time it was leased to various private tenants.

Lancaster was once again designated for use as a prison from 1954 onwards when the council leased the castle to the Home Office.

However, the castle will continue to be leased by the Ministry of Justice until 2014, when the crown court is expected to be relocated.

In 1953 the castle was leased to the Ministry of Works and Arnold Taylor undertook a wide range of repairs and extensive research into the castle's history.

The castle was renovated and leased to the John Lewis Partnership for use as a staff hotel.

He was officially the ward of Sir John Spencer Logan and Lady Logan, who leased the castle for him.

In the mid 16th century the 2nd Earl of Pembroke used the castle as a manorial court, but in 1583 the castle was leased to Thomas Lewis, who accelerated the castles dilapidation by removing stonework to build his nearby manor, The Van.

He then leased the castle and the lands to Sir Valentine Browne ancestor of the Earls of Kenmare.

In 2001 the castle was leased by the chief of Clan MacNeil to Historic Scotland for 1000 years for the annual sum of £ 1 and a bottle of whisky.

The castle and lands were purchased by John Farquharson, 9th Laird of Invercauld but the building was left in ruins until 1748 when it was leased to the government at a fee of £ 14 per year, now to serve as a garrison for Hanoverian troops.

Since 2006 the castle has been leased to the local community.

The famous Carew family take their name from the place, and still own the castle, although it is leased to the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, which administers the site.

The castle thus reverted to the crown and was leased to various tenants.

The castle is still used as a hostel, now leased by the Rhineland-Palatinate Youth Hostel Association.

In 2001 the castle was leased to Historic Scotland for one thousand years at the rent of £ 1 per year and a bottle of Talisker whisky.

Throughout the 20th Century the castle was leased out to a series of tenants including a boarding school.

The castle was left in ruins until 1748 when it was leased to the government by the Clan Farquharson.

It is leased long term to Braemar Community Ltd, Scotland's only community operated castle.

Finding the castle is in a vital strategic spot, he returns to investigate, and learns the place is leased by a man named Bommaerts, one of the words he had overheard on the beach in Skye.

After a long period of remaining empty, the castle slowly began to decay, until in 1812, when Simon Temple, a local businessman, leased the castle from the Strathmores and made it habitable.

For example, in the 1543 Siege of Nice the Ottoman forces led by Barbarossa conquered and pillaged the town itself and took many captives-but the city castle held out, due to which the townspeople were accounted the victors.

He sets out in the early morning and ends up at an inn, which he believes to be a castle.

The city was laid out as a castle town around Edo Castle.

Here, a small boy is shown knocking down a castle just constructed by a little girl out of children's building blocks.

Those who were destined to become knights were singled out: in boyhood, these future warriors were sent off to a castle as pages, later becoming squires.

There is documentary evidence dating from 1130 referring to works carried out at the castle by Henry I.

One of the most celebrated gardeners of modern times, Gertrude Jekyll ( 1843 – 1932 ), laid out a tiny garden just north of the castle in 1911.

They learn that the castle belongs to Ysbaddaden, that he stripped Custennin of his lands and murdered the shepherd's twenty-three children out of cruelty.

* 1992 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £ 50 million worth of damage.

The garrison sallied out of the castle and attacked Richard ; he was able to subdue the army and then followed the defenders inside the open gates, where he easily took over the castle in two days.

He then fights his way out of the castle, using a tram car to leave the area and meet up with a member of the German resistance in a nearby village.

He did however create a secret passageway that led from one of castle's hallways to the sealed dungeons, and from there to the family cemetery out of the castle.

Pietro is taken, but escapes out of the hands of the robbers, and after some adventures arrives at the castle where Agnolella is, marries her, and returns with her to Rome.

The town held out for 18 days, and after it fell to William he built a castle to secure his control.

* Estonians destroy the castle of Yuryev in Tartu and carry out raids in the Pskov region in Russia.

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.

Despite the destruction wrought on the countryside, the city castle held out in spite of repeated attempts over twelve days to take it, and the Turks left the island unsuccessfully because of poor logistics and an epidemic that decimated their ranks.

It is also worth mentioning that another castle, Angelokastro ( Greek: Αγγελόκαστρο meaning Angelo's Castle and named for its Byzantine owner Angelos Komnenos ), situated on the northwest coast near Palaiokastritsa ( Greek: Παλαιοκαστρίτσα meaning Old Castle place ) and located on particularly steep and rocky terrain, a tourist attraction today, also held out.

In the beginning, he arrives at a castle where a man is thrown out for begging for food.

Furthermore, Willey points out that a courtier of Hulagu Khan, Juvayni, surveyed the Alamut castle just before the Mongol invasion.

When the latter adamantly refused the Queen admittance, fighting broke out outside the castle between Isabella's guards and the garrison, marking the beginning of the Despenser War.

Having led his men out from the castle to meet the enemy, Edward gained early success, but unwisely pursued a retreating force to the north, thus sacrificing the chance of overall victory.

The Yorkists marched out of Sandal Castle down the present-day Manygates Lane towards the Lancastrians located to the north of the castle.