Le Vivier Castle

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Ruins of Le Vivier Castle

The ruins of Le Vivier Castle ( French Château du Vivier ) are located in Fontenay-Trésigny in the Seine-et-Marne department . The ruin and the associated grounds have been protected as a Monument historique since October 31, 1996 .

history

The land on which the castle was built belonged to the Tournan-en-Brie Seigneurie and was owned by the Garlande family in the 13th century . Jean II. De Garlande, Seigneur von Tournan, sold the property in May 1293 to Pierre de Chambly, the executor of King Philip III's will. and chamberlain of King Philip IV. Pierre de Chambly in turn ceded the lordship of Tournan in October of the same year to Charles de Valois , who was able to expand the property through acquisitions and gifts from his brother Philip IV.

The castle goes back to Charles de Valois, although a manor house ( French hotel seigneurial ) is mentioned here as early as 1260 . The court painter Évrard d'Orléans designed the halls and galleries of Le Vivier in 1308 . Philip IV stayed here several times, his son Philip V in the years 1319 and 1320, he issued the ordinances to the Cour des Comptes and the Parlement here .

Pope John XXII. approved in 1316 by a papal bull to build a Thomas Becket consecrated chapel . King Philip VI , the eldest son of Charles de Valois, added a chapel dedicated to Louis the Saint . In 1352 the marriage of Jeanne de France, daughter of King John II , to Charles II of Navarre was celebrated in Le Vivier ; the chapel was elevated to a collegiate church on this occasion . In 1368, King Charles V gave the collegiate church a cross relic for safekeeping, making the collegiate church the Sainte-Chapelle . The gate tower of the castle, which seems to be older than that of Vincennes Castle, was probably built at this time .

King Charles VI. came to Le Vivier in 1380 and 1381, and was brought here more frequently after the outbreak of his illness in 1392. With Charles's death, the great times of Le Vivier Castle ended; the property was only used to deliver carp for the Louvre . In 1471, Louis XI. Le Vivier to the canons of the Sainte-Chapelle . Finally, Francis I was the last king to visit Le Vivier in 1546, but stayed in the house of the canons as the royal lodgings had already become uninhabitable due to neglect. In 1694 the state of the Sainte-Chapelle was described as improper, the castle as a ruin. Louis XIV then decided to subordinate the Sainte-Chapelle of Le Vivier to the Sainte-Chapelle of Vincennes. Louis XV finally, the Sainte-Chapelle of Le Vivier finally abolished in 1734.

The (new) Le Vivier Castle in the early 1930s

In 1791, Le Vivier was sold to Lemaître de Courtigny as a national property for 25,000  livres . The buildings that were still preserved were then used for agriculture. The castle became a farm, the chapel a barn, the rest was sold as building material. In 1830 the Parisian lawyer Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Parquin, who had bought Le Vivier, had a new castle built and an English garden laid out. In 1854 Le Vivier was sold to Minister Raymond Sabatier for 60,000 francs, who in turn sold the castle to the Vicomte de Perthuis, whose family held the property until the late 1940s. In 1958 the Parisian industrialist cousin bought the castle and had extensive restoration work carried out. Since 2006, Le Vivier has been marketed by a new owner as a background for weddings, seminars, etc.

Le Vivier had already been classified as a Monument historique in 1875, but apparently lost this classification again as the ruin no longer appeared in the inventory of 1914. In 1991 it was again placed under protection, and in 1996 it was classified as a monument historique.

literature

  • Jean Mesqui: Île-de-France Gothique 2. Les demeures seigneuriales . 1988, ISBN 2-7084-0374-5 , pp. 362-375.
  • Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (ed.): Guide du Patrimoine. Île-de-France . Hachette, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-01-016811-9 , pp. 739-740.

Web links

Commons : Burg Le Vivier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Père Anselme : Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France des Pairs, Grands officiers de la couronne et de la Maison du roi; et des grands barons. Volume 16. 1730.

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 10.2 "  N , 2 ° 50 ′ 55.8"  E