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unusual facts about motte



Aberdyfi Castle

A motte was constructed at the end of a low ridge running across marshy ground, surrounded on two sides by the confluence of the Dyfi and Einion rivers.

Ainbusk

Formed in 1983, Ainbusk are best known for their single "Jag mötte Lassie" ("I Met Lassie") - frequently referred to simply as "Lassie" - which was the Christmas chart-topper in Sweden in 1990.

Benjamin Motte

Motte's edition of Isaac Newton's Principia (1729) was translated by Andrew Motte (1696–1734), his brother a mathematician and very briefly the lecturer on geometry at Gresham College.

Brandon Castle

It was originally a 12th-century earthwork motte and bailey fortress founded by Geoffrey de Clinton.

Castle Tump

Castle Tump (Trecastle Motte) is an early 11th-century motte and bailey castle at the west end of the village of Trecastle in the county of Powys, Wales.

Castles in South Yorkshire

Its castle was a motte and bailey, known from a seventeenth-century sketch of the motte made by Roger Dodsworth.

Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers

Located in the midst of a large wood stands the Château de la Motte-Chandeniers a former stronghold of the illustrious Bauçay family, lords of Loudun.

Château de la Motte-Glain

Le château de la Motte-Glain is a castle built in the commune of La Chapelle-Glain, Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Cymbeline's Castle

Cymbeline's Castle, also known as Cymbeline's Mound and Belinus's Castle, is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in woods north of Great Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England.

Djan Silveberg

In 1995 and 1996, ‘Quelques Vers de Rome – MXMXCIV’ was presented as a personal exhibition in La Ravoire, Chambery, La Motte Servolex and finally in Lyon during the G7 Summit.

EV8 The Mediterranean Route

In doing so, it will pass through the cities of Argelès-sur-Mer, Port Barcarès, Port Leucate, Narbonne, Béziers, Agde, Sète, La Grande-Motte, Cavaillon, Apt, Forcalquier, and Nice.

Freckenham

In the tenth century the conquering Vikings sold the village, but it was restored to Rochester only to be lost again when Sweyn Forkbeard invaded and is believed to have destroyed the village's castle, of which only the motte mound remains.

Geoffrey Alselin

Alselin began the construction of the Motte-and-Bailey castle that stood at Laxton, Nottinghamshire, although it would not be completed until after Alselin's son-in-law, Robert de Caux, was appointed the hereditary Keeper of the Royal Forests of Nottingham.

Great Canfield Castle

In the 1130s-1140s Aubrey de Vere II or his son Aubrey III the first Earl of Oxford may have diverted a tributary of the river to flood the ditch around the motte; the water was managed by a dam system.

Halford, Warwickshire

By the River Stour are the earthworks and buried remains of Halford Castle, a motte castle believed to be the predecessor of the present manor house.

Hewelsfield Motte

The Hewelsfield Motte is a roughly circular mound, thought to be a medieval motte built soon after the Norman conquest of England.

La Motte-d'Aigues

La Motte-d'Aigues is situated in the southern part of the Parc naturel régional du Luberon between the crest of the Grand Luberon and the hills bordering the Eze river.

Laxton Castle

The Motte-and-bailey castle first built on the spot seems to have been constructed very soon after the Norman Invasion, perhaps under order of Geoffrey Alselin who was granted the property in 1066, though more likely under order of Alselin's son-in-law, Robert de Caux, who used Laxton as his seat after Alselin's death.

Marguerite De La Motte

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, De La Motte began her entertainment career studying ballet under Anna Pavlova.

Mathieu Tillet

Alexander Lernet-Holenia: Das Halsband der Königin (The Queen's Necklace, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Hamburg/Vienna, 1962, historical study on the affair of the diamond necklace, with a chapter on the life of Mathieu Tillet, and describing his role in the escape of the Comtesse de la Motte from prison)

Middleton Mount

Middleton Mount, also called Middleton Motte and Middleton Castle, is the remains of a medieval castle situated in the village of Middleton, in Norfolk, England.

Milden Castle

Milden Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle on Foxburrow hill in Milden, a village in Suffolk, England.

Motte v Faulkner

Motte v Faulkner (decided 28 November 1735) was a copyright lawsuit between Benjamin Motte and George Faulkner over who had the legal rights to publish the works of Jonathan Swift in London.

Penwortham Priory

A small castle was built on the hill in Penwortham overlooking the river crossing and the castle mound (the motte) can still be seen behind St Mary's church.

Pierre La Motte

Isle La Motte, Vermont, a small island in Lake Champlain, was named for Pierre La Motte.

Pierre Lambert de la Motte

Born in La Boissière, Calvados, Lambert de la Motte was recruited by Alexander de Rhodes as a secular clergy volunteer to become a missionary in Asia, together with François Pallu and Ignace Cotolendi.

Planchette

In 1868, the C.Y. Fonda sheet music company of Cincinnati published the “Planchette Polka,” composed by August La Motte, dedicated to Kirby & Co, which was the dominate planchette manufacturer of the day.

Robert de Flers

Robert de Flers (Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers) (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.

St. Anne Shell Chapel

As the chapel was being built, Sister Mary Joseph Le Fer de la Motte had the idea to line the walls with iridescent river shells from the nearby Wabash River.

Stansted Mountfitchet Castle

Stansted Mountfitchet Castle, also termed simply Mountfitchet Castle, is a Norman ringwork and bailey fortification in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England.

Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte

Count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte (born 1 November 1720 in Rennes; died 10 June 1791 in Brest) was a French admiral.

Tower of Kamyanyets

This type of the motte-and-bailey castle appeared in the 10th and 11th centuries between the Rhine and Loire rivers and eventually spread to most of western Europe and even to the area of the present Belarus.


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