Castel terms and other words/terms in English and their translations.
 This is an area I readily admit my terrible weakness. In spite of a lifetime of off-and-on attempts my German is and will probably always be at a very base level. I believe the translations below are pretty accurate, but I am certainly open to correction. In fact I felt that getting this page into the system was important enough that I haven't really edited it much, so that it looks much like I initially created it. Forgive me, I will clean it up in time. For your own peace of mind use this only as a starting point.
Term/English Term/German
abbey Abtei
appeared erscheint
Approval/approved genehmigen/genehmigte
base (of operations) Stützpunkt
castle count Burggraf
castle Burg
central family Hauptstamm
complete vollständig
conquer eroberte
constables Vögte
contained enthält
Count Graf
count Palatinate Pfalzgraf
court (yard) Hof / Höfe
destroyed zerstört
donator/gift/gave Schenker/Schenkung/schenkte
dynasty, family line Geschlect
eventful bewegtem
fief/enfeofed (tafellehen) Lehen/belehnt (fief paying in crop)
Found/Founded Gründete/gegründete
free freien
fued Fehde
furnishings Ausstattung
half round halbrund
half round tower Halbrundtürmen
hand back zuruchreichen
how, in what way wodurch
Hungarian Ungarn
impressive eindrucksvolle
in legal force, the force of law galt/gelten
in view of hinblick
inheritance Erbe
keep open offenzuhalten
landgrave Langrafen
ledge Vorsprung
Legend (?) Sagenach
mansion, manor Schloss
Margrave Markgraf
mentioned erwähnt
mocking spöttisch
mortgaged verpfändet
most extreme äussersten
name/named nannte/nennenden
nobility Adel
noble (free noble?) edel (freien)
obligation Verpflichtung
occupied inne
on one's own authority eigen
origin Entstehung
outer ring wall Bering
outline Umriss
power Gewalt
Powerful mächtigen
powerful position, postion of... Machtposition
precious kostbare
probable warscheinlich
progressive fortschrittlichsten
protection sicherung/ sicher
proven bewahrt
residential tower Wohnturm
retinue Gelegene
rise up ragen/ragt
settled besiedelt
significant, important Bedeuten (d) (ung)
similar gleich / gleichen
simple schlichter
soveriegn prince Landesherren
spledid grossartig
Stretch Erstrecken
struggle streit
substantial umfangreiche
support unterstützen
supposedly vermutlich
throne Thron
traffic/movement control vehrkehrs
visible sichtbar
well built stattlicher
written record Überlieferung

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