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The castle was then bought back by the canton of Fribourg in 1938, made into a museum and opened to the public.
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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.
castle and then
The Seljuq Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (" black castle ") after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town.
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 ).
He then grabs the book from the cradle, and rushes back to the castle, while the dead rise from graves all around.
Germanus then prayed for three days and nights at Vortigern's castle and fire fell from heaven and engulfed the castle.
King Baldwin himself then went to relieve the castle, carried on a litter, and attended by his mother.
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.
Released in early 1265, Edward then defeated Montfort at the Battle of Evesham ; the surviving rebels under the leadership of Henry de Hastings, Montfort's constable at Kenilworth, regrouped at the castle the following spring.
In terms of fortification, the Middle Ages saw the emergence of the castle in Europe, which then spread to southwestern Asia.
The castle became then the seat of the Baron of Posada, a title and a fief created in 1431 for Don Nicolò Carroz and formally ended in 1856, when it was finally bought by the kingdom of Sardinia ( the last one of all Sardinian fiefs ).
The Bohemian Protestants appealed to Matthias for help, whose army then held Rudolf prisoner in his castle in Prague, until 1611, when Rudolf was forced to cede the crown of Bohemia to his brother.
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.
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, rebuilt Carmarthen castle in 1145 then began a campaign to reclaim Ceredigion.
An appeal to the king produced no response, and Rhys resorted to arms, first capturing Clifford's castle at Llandovery then seizing Ceredigion.
Rhys first appealed to the king to intercede, then when this failed invaded Ceredigion and recaptured all of it apart from the town and castle of Cardigan.
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.
Troops could then rush onto the walls and into the castle or city.
" The young Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( then named Kinoshita Tōkichirō ) leads a small group assaulting the castle on Mount Kinka ( Gifu ) | Mount Inaba ; 1885, 12th month
Motoyasu was then able to exchange his wife and son for the wife and daughter of the ruler of Kaminojo castle.
The castle, stripped of its furniture and ornaments during the Revolution, was left abandoned, with only Napoleon briefly staying one night there and then leaving the castle for good.
William then moved to Hastings, a few miles to the east, where he built a castle as a base of operations.
castle and bought
The castle was bought in 1988 by Evelyn Graybill, who converted it into a hotel.
In 2006 Chris Naylor was married in the castle, following which the Naylor family bought the property.
Lady Baillie bought the castle in 1926.
In 2005 he and his brother bought the castle of Estaing, a famous place in the French district of Aveyron and formerly a possession of the above mentioned admiral d ' Estaing who was beheaded in 1794.
The castle of Corroy-le-Château, one of the best conserved castles of this period in Northern Europe was bought by a Flemish artist Wim Delvoye for EUR 3. 3 million.
The most famous resident of this castle was Adriaan Pauw, who bought it in 1620.
The castle was bought by Sir Henry Montagu, later 1st Earl of Manchester, in 1615.
In 1750, Ray had bought the Chaumont castle ( named from the Old French for " bald hill ", and built in two periods around 1500 ), in the Loire Valley of France.
The stone castle Henry Percy bought was a modest affair, but he immediately began rebuilding.
In Scotland the first cannon for a castle appears to have been bought for Edinburgh in 1384, which also became an arsenal for the new devices.
Some of the more significant cases included St Donat's Castle, bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1925 and then decorated with numerous medieval buildings removed from their original sites around Britain, and the case of Hornby, where many parts of the castle were sold off and sent to buyers in the United States.
Lord Thomas Bulkeley bought the castle from the Crown in 1807 for £ 735, incorporating it into the park that surrounded his local residence, Baron Hill.
In 1799 the Helvetic Republic bought the castle from the municipality and used it until 1974 as the seat of government.
After the defeat of Napoleon's army at the Battle of Vitoria on 21 June 1813 and the entry of allied troops in Paris in 1814, Julie bought the castle of Prangins in Switzerland, near Lake Léman.
His son, John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet, inherited Nicholas's property on his father's death in 1631 ; it was John Tufton who reunited possession of castle and manor when he bought Bodiam Castle in 1639.
In 1722 Sir Thomas Webster bought the castle.
Fuller repaired one of the towers, added new gates to the site, and removed a cottage which had been built within the castle in the 18th century ; he is thought to have bought the castle to prevent the Webster family from dismantling it and reusing its materials.
The family's main castle, where the Memoirs were written, was the castle of La Ferté-Vidame, bought by duke Claude shortly after being awarded his dukedom.
The Barclay Brothers ' castle, Brecqhou In 1993, the Barclay brothers bought the island of Brecqhou, a small sister island of Sark, one of the Channel Islands.
The Queen Dowager Regent Hedwig Eleonora bought the castle in 1661, a year after her role as Queen of Sweden ended, but it burnt to the ground on 30 December that same year.
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