It is not known when the castle was abandoned, but the list of castellans ceases in the reign of Henry VI.
There is a marked contrast, however, in the order he directed to each of the Scots castellans to deliver over their strongholds to English successors.
While English counsels ruled the policy of the Guardians, and English castellansstretched their mailed hands over Scotland from the strongholds, the great cause dragged on.
Thereupon he issued orders to the Guardians to deliver seisin of the kingdom to the new King, and to the castellans of the twenty-three chief strongholds to deliver them over to Balliol or his representatives.
Not that all castellans are brutal--but after all, men will be men, lose their tempers, and treat their wives accordingly.
The chief officials, castellans and councillors, enjoyed high salaries for neglected duties.
As the chances of peculation diminished, the castellans deserted their posts and left the castles to decay.
Indeed John's few trusted confidants were nearly all foreigners, such men as the mercenary captains Gerard of Athies and Engelhart of Cigogne, whom he made sheriffs and castellans to the discontent of all Englishmen.
From them he chose the sheriffs, castellans and councillors through whom he administered the realm during the rest of his long reign.
They evoke the glorious or charming memories of the castellans and the chatelaines, and, thanks to them, the whole past of La Roche-Guyon is born again.
The castellansof today are, however, distinguished for the most part by a reputation for humanity, philosophy, politeness.
And he immediately adds a note of which I reproduce only these few lines: "I am very far from confounding modern castles with ancient ones, and thecastellans of today with those of former times.
To the gloomy feudal citadel succeeded a chateau of the Renaissance, somewhat less terrible, and the castellans of the eighteenth century changed it in the taste of their time without being able to deprive it of its warlike aspect.
It is true that our castellans on the border are not castellans of Cracow, and there are some of whom few in the Commonwealth have heard; but still, whoso has sat once in a senator's chair bequeaths to posterity his splendor.
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