Im sorry if my infos are quite vague. But i need the name of the battle ( or place where it happend)
When i was in school we once visted an old german castle and a guy told us storrys about the Medival time. He told us about an ancient battle in wich the sieging ones caught some of the children of the villages around the castles. They later chained the children to thier siegetower so the defending castle wouldnt try to brun it down.
Thats all the info i got.
Sry for my bad english.
I suppose this might have happened more than once, but I'm sure it refers to Emperor Frederick I's siege of Crema in Italy in 1159. Frederick took some captives from the city when they resisted, then built a huge wooden siege tower and tied the captives to it:
"Frederick ordered hostages attached to the upper floors and even had lit candles placed in their hands at night in the expectation that the defenders would not kill their own people; but the desperate Cremans continued even though some of the hostages were severely wounded or killed. Frederick had the tower withdrawn, perhaps because of his lack of success or because, maybe, even he was repelled by the barbarity."
(John B. Freed, Frederick Barbarossa: A Prince and the Myth (Yale University Press, 2016), pg. 247.)