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 the 17th century, the minister of finances under Archdukes Albert and Isabella acquired and refurbished the old 12th century Rivieren castle in Ganshoren, near Jette.

On June 1, the Habsburgs opened the refurbished castle to the public as the first private museum of the country and disclosed with Bran Village a joint strategic concept to maintain their domination in the Romanian tourist circuit and to safeguard the economic base in the region.

In 1627 the castle was refurbished and became a Baroque style palace of Bishop Jan Zadzik.

Polnoon castle was refurbished for occupation in 1617 but was ruined by 1676.

In exchange, she refurbished the castle and reinforced it.

The promenade from the castle grounds to the other side of the harbour was refurbished during 2008 / 2009 along with the promenade along the Marine Highway.

James, 4th Baron Kingston, extensively refurbished and modernised the castle in the 1730s.

In the 17th century the Covets refurbished the castle.

The castle was refurbished in the late 1980s and is now a museum.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

* 1482 – The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army

And against the sack of Megara, she had to face the temporary capture of the castle of Aegina by Kemal Reis and the carrying off of 2000 Aeginetans.

In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.

The castle was much fought over during the Crusades and was finally conquered by the Ottoman Sultan Beyazid I in 1392 but was lost after the invasion of Timur Lenk in 1402.

The Umayyad army then moved to Bobastro, while the cavalry was sent to the castle of Sant Batir, which was abandoned by the defenders, allowing Abd ar-Rahman's troops to secure a large booty.

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 Aberdour obelisk was built by Lord Morton on his departure from the village to relocate to a large home in Edinburgh, it was built so he could see his former hometown from his new house when he looked through binoculars-it stands in a cowfield between the castle and the beach.

It was subsequently endowed by William de Braose, with a tenth or " tithe " of the profits of the castle and town.

Gerald of Wales relates how in 1182 the castle was seized back by the Welsh.

Founded by the Hassan-i Sabbah, the Assassins were active in the fortress of Alamut in Iran from the 8th to the 14th centuries, and also controlled the castle of Masyaf in Syria.

The castle is an example of Scots Baronial architecture, and is classified by Historic Scotland as a category A listed building.

Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.

The architecture of the new house is considered to be somewhat dated for its time, being similar in style to the demolished castle of the 1830s, in contrast to the richer forms of Scots Baronial being developed by William Burn and others during the 1850s.

The ballroom is the only room in the castle which can be viewed by the public.

Since 1987 an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of £ 100 notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland.