The castle has since disappeared and the settlement now known as Azincourt adopted the name in the 17th Century.

The city also has castle known as Margrafen – Schloss built between 1704-1738.

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

The plot is usually set in a castle, an abbey, a monastery, or some other, usually religious edifice, and it is acknowledged that this building has secrets of its own.

* Latin'll ' has become-dd-( like casteddu, beddu ' castle ', ' beautiful '), the same as in Sardinian, southern Corsican and Sicilian ( but castellu, bellu in northern Corsican );

The film has a notable jousting scene as well as a well choreographed castle siege sequence.

The capital has also been known as " Castro " or " Kastron " ( Καστρον ; meaning castle ).

Constructed from Norman through to Tudor times, the castle has been described by architectural historian Anthony Emery as " the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship ".

English Heritage has managed the castle since 1984.

In 1958 his son gave the castle itself to the town of Kenilworth and English Heritage has managed the property since 1984.

At the junction between the inner and outer baileys, on the north side of the castle stood a tall five-sided keep, the eastern parts of which has been pulled down.

No other version of the story has Macbeth kill the king in Macbeth's own castle.

Mervyn Peake never returned to China but it has been noted that Chinese influences can be detected in Peake's works, not least in the castle of Gormenghast itself, which in some respects echoes the ancient walled city of Peking ( Beijing ) as well as the enclosed compound where he grew up in Tientsin ( Tianjin ).

Al-Fayed has invested more than £ 20 million in the estate, restored the 14th century pink Balnagowan castle, and created a tourist accommodation business.

Mancala has also been found in Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece (" Mandoli ," Cyclades ) and in a remote castle in southern Germany ( Schloss Weikersheim ).

These fortifications evolved over the course of the Middle Ages, the most important form being the castle, a structure which has become linked with the medieval era to many.

The castle has been the equivalent of a holiday residence for the Giudichessa Eleanor of Arborea, and was object of alternate possession by the Giudicato d ' Arborea and the Aragon, during the long fight before the Spanish conquest.

The name has been associated with the castle of Volturno in Campania but even this is not concrete.

There, he finds that the ruined part of the castle has become infested with undead creatures, which are attacking the castle's desperate garrison.

Gawain, for example, has an adventure in the 1973 version which is not a part of the poem between the time he leaves Camelot and the time he arrives at Bertilak's castle.

* Spook: A miserable, comically destitute prisoner who for many years has lived in the dungeons beneath the castle.

The iconic castle has become a symbol of Osaka's re-emergence as a great city after its devastation in World War II.

It has been also suggested that in the context the meaning of linda in the archaic Estonian language, that is similar to lidna in Votic, had the same meaning as linna or linn later on meaning a castle or town in English.

Totnes has a long recorded history, dating back to AD 907 when its first castle was built ; it was already an important market town by the 12th century.

A statue of the sleeping Ogier has been placed in the castle.

A new castle was built at Monmouth, holding commanding views over the surrounding area from a sound defensive site and exerting control over both river crossings and the area's important resources of farmland, timber and minerals.

* Castello di Arechi (" Arechis Castle ") is a massive castle commanding the city from a hill.

The castle of Benevento, best known as Rocca dei Rettori or Rocca di Manfredi, stands at the highest point of the town, commanding the valley of the rivers Sabato and Calore, and the two main ancient roads Via Appia and Via Traiana.

The castle has Guelph merlons and stands on a commanding point, where traces of ancient settlements ( including Samnite walls ) have been found.

The main fortress within Hay-on-Wye was situated on the great site commanding the town and river under the current ruins of the castle and mansion.

The castle occupies a commanding position atop a large hill above the town, and guards the approach to three valleys.

His troops managed to hold out for 3 months, before commanding officers surrendered the castle and committed suicide.

In the late thirteenth century the castle site was claimed by the De Clare family because of its strategic importance, commanding both the plains area and the entrance to the Taff valley.

* remains of the medieval castle, commanding the town from the eponymous hill, and of the walls

The castle of Larissa was an excellent position, commanding the whole plain.

On a commanding hilltop position Cassels deviated slightly from his usual sombre style, to give the house something of what John Vanbrugh would have called the ' castle air ' - a severe palladian facade terminated by two circular domed towers.

The castle has a very commanding view of the water approaches.

The castle the city takes its name from was erected in around the 9th century on a hill commanding the southern side of the Gulf of Naples.

During 4th battle on Hefei of 234, Man Chong was responsible of the defense of the grand castle of Hefei ( however, Man Chong was not physically there ), though his suggestion to reinforce general Zhang Ying ( who was commanding troops inside Hefei Castle ) was rejected by Cao Rui, he managed to burn down the rams Wu forces assembled to seize the city.

The castle has been developed to a fortress and served as headquarter for the commanding general of this area ( see Stari grad Slunj ).

Although the production was initially offered broad cooperation to film within the castle from the commanding officer there, as long as it didn't disrupt the regiment's routine, after seeing a lurid paperback cover for Kennaway's book, that cooperation evaporated, and the production was only allowed to shoot distant exterior shots of the castle.

The rock above the city it is crowned by a medieval castle commanding beautiful views: a tower is still pointed out as that from which the stone was thrown which killed Milo.