A report on Castle and Château de Chinon

Dating back to the early 12th century, the Alcázar of Segovia is one of the most distinctive castles in Europe.

Built in 1385, Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, England, is surrounded by a water-filled moat.

The castle viewed from across the Vienne

The Norman White Tower, the keep of the Tower of London, exemplifies all uses of a castle including city defence, a residence, and a place of refuge in times of crisis.

Windsor Castle in England was founded as a fortification during the Norman Conquest and today is one of the principal official residences of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Tour du Coudray, a keep, was built during the reign of Philip Augustus, and in the early 14th century was used as a prison.

Baba Vida medieval castle build on the banks of the Danube in Vidin, Bulgaria

Inside the royal apartments before they were restored in the 21st century

São Jorge Castle in Lisbon, Portugal, with a bridge over a moat

The remains of the Fort St George in 2005, before the visitor centre was built.

The wooden palisades on top of mottes were often later replaced with stone, as in this example at Château de Gisors in France.

Fort du Coudray, the castle's westernmost enclosure

A courtyard of the 14th-century Raseborg Castle in Finland

Museum model of how Château de Chinon may have appeared

The 14th-century keep of Château de Vincennes near Paris towers above the castle's curtain wall. The wall exhibits features common to castle architecture: a gatehouse, corner towers, and machicolations.

Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey, North Wales, with curtain walls between the lower outer towers, and higher inner curtain walls between the higher inner towers.

A 13th-century gatehouse in the château de Châteaubriant, France. It connects the upper ward to the lower one.

Caerlaverock Castle in Scotland is surrounded by a moat.

Daorson, Bosnia, built around a prehistoric central fortified settlement or acropolis (existed there cca. 17/16th c. to the end of the Bronze Age, cca. 9/8th c. BCE), surrounded by cyclopean walls (similar to Mycenae) dated to the 4th c. BCE.

Borġ in-Nadur fort in Malta, built during the Tarxien phase and used until the Bronze Age.

The Bayeux Tapestry contains one of the earliest representations of a castle. It depicts attackers of the Château de Dinan in France using fire, a major threat to wooden castles.

Built in 1138, Castle Rising in Norfolk, England is an example of an elaborate donjon.

Albarrana tower in Paderne Castle, Portugal

The gatehouse to the inner ward of Beeston Castle in Cheshire, England, was built in the 1220s, and has an entrance between two D-shaped towers.

Krak des Chevaliers in Syria is a concentric castle built with both rectangular and rounded towers. It is one of the best-preserved Crusader castles.

The design of Edward I's Harlech Castle (built in the 1280s) in North Wales was influenced by his experience of the Crusades.

The northern walls of the Gran Castello in Gozo, Malta, were built in the 15th century.

Corvin Castle in Transylvania (built between 1446 and 1480) was one of the biggest in Eastern Europe at that time.

The angled bastion, as used in Copertino Castle in Italy, was developed around 1500. First used in Italy, it allowed the evolution of artillery forts that eventually took over the military role of castles.

Neuschwanstein is a 19th-century historicist (neoromanesque) castle built by Ludwig II of Bavaria, inspired by the romanticism of the time.

Castello Dei Baroni, a country residence in Wardija, Malta, designed with castle-like features.

A 19th-century depiction by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc of the construction of the large tower at Coucy Castle in France, with scaffolding and masons at work. The putlog holes mark the position of the scaffolding in earlier stages of construction. The tower was blown up in 1917.

Experimental archeology castle building at Guédelon Castle site in France (2015).

God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1900: a late Victorian view of a lady giving a favour to a knight about to do battle.

Highland castles such as Château de Montségur in southern France have become the popular idea of where castles should be found because they are photogenic, where in reality castles were built in a variety of places due to a range of considerations.

Srebrenik Fortress in Srebrenik, Bosnia: inaccessibility of location with only a narrow bridge traversing deep canyon provides excellent protection.

Almourol Castle in Portugal, which stands on a small islet in the Tejo River.

Tavastia Castle in Hämeenlinna, Finland, one of the northernmost castles in Europe. The exact date of construction of the castle is unclear, as far as it is known to have been built in the late 13th century, but the first mention of it in contemporary documents is from 1308. It was built close to Lake Vanajavesi.

An early 13th-century drawing by Matthew Paris showing contemporary warfare, including the use of castles (here Lincoln Castle), crossbowmen and mounted knights.

A reconstructed trebuchet at Château des Baux in Bouches-du-Rhône in the south of France.

Château de Chinon is a castle located on the bank of the river Vienne in Chinon, France.

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There are examples of some castles where stone was quarried on site, such as Chinon, Château de Coucy and Château Gaillard.

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Château de Langeais

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Modern tableau of the marriage of Anne of Brittany to King Charles VIII

The château was rebuilt in the 15th century.

The north-east face of the 10th-century keep

The Château de Langeais is a 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic castle in Indre-et-Loire, France, built on a promontory created by the small valley of the Roumer River at the opening to the Loire Valley.

Fulk set his sights on further territorial gains and successfully captured Château de Chinon 22 km away.

Château Gaillard

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A 17th-century portrait of Richard the Lionheart, the man responsible for building Château Gaillard.

The keep of Château Gaillard is surrounded by a moat.

An impression by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, a 19th-century architect experienced in renovating castles, of how the Siege of Château Gaillard would have looked

A plan of Château Gaillard by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, with north pointing to the bottom-left-hand corner. The inner bailey and keep is at the bottom of the plan and the outer bailey is at the top. But there is at least one mistake, the tower supposed to contain the latrines on the right of the keep, was not round but square.

Château Gaillard is a medieval castle ruin overlooking the River Seine above the commune of Les Andelys, in the French department of Eure, in Normandy.

The division into three wards bears similarities with the design of Château de Chinon, built by Henry II in the mid-12th century on a promontory overlooking a town.