Bouteville Castle
The Bouteville Castle (French: Château de Bouteville) is a ruined castle in the French town of Bouteville in the Charente department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region . It goes back to a castle built against the Normans , which has fallen into disrepair after being destroyed and rebuilt several times since the French Revolution . The complex stands on a hill near the road from Saintes to Périgueux , which existed in Roman times and from which the city walls of Angoulême could be seen. Since February 1984 it has been under monument protection as Monument historique .
history
A first primitive castle was built at the time of the Norman invasions by the Counts of Angoulême on the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa .
A few years after the end of the Norman invasions , the castle and the Bouteville estate came into the possession of Maynard le Riche, Seigneur d ' Archiac . But through his daughter Pétronille it came back into the possession of the Counts of Angoulême, who had one of their preferred residences there. Count Vulgrin II died there on November 16, 1140. With the county of Angoulême, the castle of Bouteville also came into the possession of the House of Lusignan before it went to the French crown in 1308.
Other owners of Bouteville were Queen Joan II of Navarre and Aimery III. de La Rochefoucauld , the bouteville of Jean de Valois, received duc de Berry as a reward for his service in the fight against the English.
During the Hundred Years War , Bouteville Castle was occupied by the English from 1360, who maintained a garrison here. It was not until 1392 that the French were finally able to take back the castle as a ruin .
In 1400 Bouteville was part of the apanage that Louis de Valois received as the new Count of Angoulême. His son Jean began to rebuild the castle after his release from English captivity in 1444. His son Charles d'Orléans and his wife Luise of Savoy often lived in the complex.
After the death of Luise of Savoy in 1531, Bouteville was sold to Claude de Montmorency , Seigneur de Fosseux , in order to relieve the state treasury in the wars against Emperor Charles V. His son François I de Montmorency took up residence here. His descendants continued to carry the title of Bouteville for a long time, although the lordship of the castle was no longer in their hands, but since 1559 in the possession of Galeazzo Pico della Mirandolas, who received Bouteville for his service in the French army. At the end of the century the castle was in ruins. King Henry IV ordered the sale of Bouteville, which was bought by Bernard de Béon, seigneur du Massès, husband of Louise , Countess of Brienne . He began restoration work, which his widow continued in 1624 but did not complete with regard to the interior decorations. The Béon family held Bouteville for more than a century, but then sold it in 1726 to Henri de Bruzac-Hautefort, Major de Life Guard of the King, who also had renovations carried out by 1736.
In 1788, Bouteville came into the possession of Charles X , then Count of Artois, in a very poor condition . When he left the country after the outbreak of the French Revolution, the castle was confiscated and sold in 1804 to the local trader Antoine Marcombe, who began demolition work soon afterwards. His family owned the site until the 20th century. The municipality of Bouteville has owned the buildings since 1994 and strives to preserve them.
East view
East facade
View from the southeast
North wing
Inner courtyard and east wing
literature
- Jean-Paul Gaillard: Le château de Bouteville. Notes pour quatre siècles d'histoire . Self-published, Saintes 1992.
Web links
- Paul de Lacroix: Histoire du château de Bouteville ( Memento of February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (detailed history of the castle in French)
- Bouteville Castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Photos from Base Mémoire
Bouteville Castle as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
Individual evidence
- ^ Bouteville Castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on November 2, 2011.
- ^ Philippe Floris (ed.): Châteaux, manoirs et logis. La Charente . Éditions Patrimoines et médias, [Chauray] 1993, ISBN 2-910137-05-8 .
Coordinates: 45 ° 36 ′ 1 ″ N , 0 ° 8 ′ 7 ″ W.