Family imprisonment at Roccasecca
· Roccasecca Castle, Roccasecca, Lazio, Italy
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 · file Aquinas was held by his family in its castles, including Roccasecca, in an unsuccessful effort to prevent him from entering the Dominican Order. The source gives a nearly year-long detention across two castles; 1244 marks its documented beginning/period.
