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What is a donjon?

What is a donjon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep.
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In the middle of the court is the donjon, which contains the archives and the treasure.
The hieroglyph deserts the cathedral, and betakes itself to blazoning the donjon keep, in order to lend prestige to feudalism.
Then Richard was captured and cast into a donjon to await the Duke's pleasure.
I've even hired spiritualists to come and cut their didoes in the towers and donjon keep.
The donjon was located on the podium of the former Roman temple of Claudius, also the site of a Late Saxon villa regalis.
Indeed, it was his anxiety to survey the scene while laying siege to the donjon at Challus-Chabrol that brought his premature death.

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