Hôtel des Tournelles
The Hôtel des Tournelles (or simply Les Tournelles ) was one of the preferred residences of the French royal family from the House of Valois from the mid-15th century to the mid-16th century.
It was located in today's 4th arrondissement in Paris, almost on what was then the edge of the city, in the immediate vicinity of the Porte Saint-Antoine, but above all the Bastide Saint-Antoine, the Bastille .
history
The Hôtel des Tournelles was a fortress, residence, prison, menagerie, and country house. It took up the two blocks that are now between Rue Saint-Antoine and Place des Vosges , with the Rue de Birague (which then did not exist) in the middle. It was bounded to the east by the Rue des Tournelles and to the west (in its greatest extent) by today's Rue Turenne.
Pierre d'Orgemont , Chancellor of France from 1373 to 1380, laid the foundations in 1388 for a house, the Hôtel d'Orgement, immediately west of the Bastille, which had been completed five years earlier. He died in 1389. His son Pierre, the bishop of Paris , sold it in 1402 to Duke Johann von Berry for 14,000 gold écu . In 1404 he exchanged the building with Duke Ludwig von Orléans for a hotel in Rue de Jouy. In 1407 the Duke of Orléans was assassinated and the hotel passed to his heirs.
Charles VI the madman (king from 1380 to 1422) lived here during his illness, as did his wife Isabeau , who is said to have had a relationship with Duke Ludwig.
After the flight of the Dauphin, later King Charles VII , from the Bourguignons in 1418 and the occupation of Paris by the English, the house was occupied by John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford , who ruled Paris until 1430. He had it rebuilt for his private use, for which he bought a dozen acres of land from the neighboring convent Sainte-Cathérine for 200,000 livres in 1425 in order to be able to expand the hotel further west. After the English were expelled in 1436, Charles VII gave the old part of the hotel back to the House of Orléans. The Hôtel d'Orgement now belonged to Count Johann von Angoulême and was called the Hôtel d'Angoulême. The property sale of 1425 was canceled in 1437 without the nuns having to return the money. In 1445 the new part was liberated from the prisons that the English had set up there. It was now called the Hôtel du Roi.
In 1464, Ludwig XI. build a gallery that crossed rue Saint-Antoine and ended at the Hôtel-Neuf (or Hôtel du Petit-Musc) of Madame d'Étampes. He also had the Hôtel du Roi renovated.
In 1467 Marguerite de Rohan, John's widow, inherited the Hôtel d'Angoulême, in 1486 it passed to her son Karl von Angoulême , whose son Franz after the childless death of Louis XII. when Francis I ascended the throne. The Hôtel d'Angoulême and the Hôtel du Roi have now been merged again, the building was now called the Hôtel des Tournelles. Franz I did not live here, however, but left it to his mother Luise of Savoy († 1531).
Louis XII. died on January 1, 1515 in the Hôtel du Roi.
Even Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly , since 1526 the mistress of Francis I and since 1533 Duchess of Etampes, lived here, as well as Diane de Poitiers , the mistress of Henry II. Since 1538, Henry II. However, not even.
In 1547 the celebrations for the coronation of Henry II and Catherine de Medici were celebrated in the Hôtel des Tournelles . In 1554 the king had two new horse stables built.
In 1559 the celebrations for the signing of the Treaties of Cateau-Cambrésis were also held here. Henry II was seriously injured on June 30th at a tournament on Rue Saint-Antoine. He died on July 10th in the neighboring Hôtel des Tournelles.
Heinrich's son and second successor Karl IX. ordered the demolition of the hotel on January 28, 1564. Plans were made, the lots were sold, but the buildings were not touched.
Catherine of Medici, in turn, had set up a horse market, the Marché aux Chevaux, at the new stables built in 1554. The duel of the Mignons between the king's favorites ( Henry III ) and the Duke of Guise ( Henri I. de Lorraine, duc de Guise ) took place here at this horse market on April 27, 1578 .
In January 1589, the courtyard of the hotel served as military grounds for those mercenaries hired to defend the city against Henry of Navarre .
In August 1603, Henry of Navarre, now King Henry IV of France, decided to found a manufacture for silk, gold and silver, for which 2.5 hectares near the Bastille were made available in January 1604. In March it was decided to have a square built in front of the manufactory, and construction began in July: the Hôtel des Tournelles now finally has to give way for the buildings on Place Royale, which later became Place des Vosges .
The Rue des Tournelles in Paris, which runs along the east side of the former Palais des Tournelles, is reminiscent of the Hôtel des Tournelles.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '16 " N , 2 ° 21' 54" E