Trémazan Castle
| Trémazan Castle | ||
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 Trémazan Castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | 9/10 century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Landunvez | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 33 '3 " N , 4 ° 42' 45" W | |
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Trémazan Castle is the ruin of a castle in the municipality of Landunvez in the canton of Ploudalmézeau in the Finistère department . The approximately 400-strong association SOS Château de Trémazan tries to protect the facility from further deterioration.
history
The castle was built in the 9th or 10th century and rebuilt in 1250 after partial destruction. It was the seat of the noble du Chastel family, which was one of the most important noble families in the Pays de Léon . B. Tanneguy III. du Chastel - made influential people. The du Chastel family remained without male descendants at the end of the 16th century.
The ruin was still inhabited until the beginning of the 20th century and has been inscribed on the French list of monuments as Monument historique since May 1926 .
Legend of Saint Tanguy
The du Chastel family has been named in a legend about the noble Galonus since 525, who had several children with his first wife - including Haude and Gurguy. After the death of his wife, he married an English woman who drove Gurguy to the court of the Frankish king Childebert I with her machinations . When Gurguy returned to Trémazan after twelve years and believed the stories of his stepmother that his sister Haude had committed the worst infamy, he beheaded his sister on November 18, 545. On the same evening Haude appeared to him with her head in his hands, shouting “I I am innocent! ”and forgive her brother before she dies. The desperate brother throws himself at the feet of Paulinus Aurelianus , Bishop of Léon, enters an order under the name Tanguy and founds several Koster, including the Abbey of Saint-Mathieu. Since then he has been known under the name Tanguy von Locmazhé , his sister as Aude de Trémazan .
Web links
- Association SOS Château de Trémazan (French)
- Trémazan Castle on casteland.com
- Photos from Base Mémoire
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of the castle ruins in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Allain Ferran: Le château de Trémazan. In: Bulletin de la Société académique de Brest . 1903 ( online in French ).