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Aerial photograph in 2007, showing the outer and inner baileys (bottom left and top right). Conisbrough Castle was founded by William de Warenne, the first Earl of Surrey, who had taken part in the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and was rewarded by his father-in-law, William the Conqueror, with extensive estates in Yorkshire, Norfolk and Sussex. [1]
The small medieval castle is also partially reconstructed and the whole area of Havránok is now an open-air museum. The site was proclaimed a national cultural monument in 1967. The site was proclaimed a national cultural monument in 1967.
Map of Caernarfon in 1610 by John Speed, a classic example of a castle town. A castle town is a settlement built adjacent to or surrounding a castle. Castle towns were common in Medieval Europe. Some examples include small towns like Alnwick and Arundel, which are still dominated by their castles.
Encastellation (sometimes castellation, which can also mean crenellation) is the process whereby the feudal kingdoms of Europe became dotted with castles, from which local lords could dominate the countryside of their fiefs and their neighbours', and from which kings could command even the far-off corners of their realms.
A 1583 map of Pembrokeshire shows the castle on the west bank of the Eastern Cleddau (Clethy), [6] and George Owen mentions it in 1603. The waterway was busy until recent times. [5] The castle is said to have been held and damaged in the Civil War, falling into ruin thereafter. [7]: 348 [5] Richard Fenton, in his 1811 Historical Tour, says:
Embleton Tower (formerly Embleton Vicarage) in Northumberland; the square medieval pele tower is at right. Pele towers can be associated with a church: for example Embleton Tower in Embleton, Northumberland, and another at Church of St Michael, Alnham, [12] are examples of a so-called 'vicar's peles' and the one at Hulne Priory near Alnwick is in the grounds of the priory.
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Castello Orsini-Odescalchi is a castle in Bracciano, Lazio, Italy.It is located on the southern shore of Lake Bracciano.It was built in the 15th century, and combines the functions of a military defence structure and a civilian residence of the feudal lords of the period, the Orsini and Borgia, both papal families.