Poissy Castle
| Poissy Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Château de Poissy | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Poissy | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 55 '43 " N , 2 ° 2' 31" E | |
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A castle Poissy ( French château de Poissy ) is an abandoned castle in the commune of Poissy west of Paris already at the time of the Carolingians . It had developed from a hunting lodge from the Merovingian era . It was then probably Konstanze von der Provence , the third wife of King Robert II , who gave the order to build a new castle next to the old buildings, so that there were two royal residences there.
King Philip II gave the castle to his son Ludwig as an apanage in 1200 on the occasion of his wedding to Blanka of Castile . The following year, Agnes-Maria von Andechs-Meranien , the third wife of Philip II , died here .
Presumably the future King Louis the Saint was born here in 1214 . He was certainly baptized in the neighboring church of Notre-Dame de Poissy . In 1245 the later King Philip III came here . to the world.
The canonization of Louis in 1297 led to the establishment of the Saint-Louis de Poissy priory , for the construction of which Poissy Castle was largely demolished from 1303. A fire that Edward of Woodstock , the Black Prince, son of the English King Edward III. in 1346, then led to King Charles V having the last remains of the castle removed in 1369.
Web links
- Collégiale de Poissy, Saint-Louis, Louis IX. In: montjoye.net. May 2, 2020(French, history, restoration and pictures).