Castle Eu
The castle Eu ( French Château d'Eu ) is a castle in the city of Eu in the Seine-Maritime department of the French region of Normandy .
history
In 1050 William the Conqueror married Mathilde of Flanders in what was then the castle of Eu. This protected the northern border of Normandy until King Louis XI. fired them to prevent their extradition to the English.
John of Burgundy , Count of Eu , built a country palace in its place . At the request of Catherines de Clèves , née Countess von Eu, and her husband Henri I de Lorraine , Duke of Guise , this was to be replaced by a larger castle in the 16th century , although only one wing was built.
In 1656, Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse , widowed Duchess of Guise, bequeathed the domain of her granddaughter Anne Marie Louise , Duchess of Montpensier , to the rebellious Grande Mademoiselle . When she refused to submit to the marriage plans that her cousin Louis XIV forged for her, the king exiled her to Eu in 1663, where she continued to write her memoirs. In order to secure the release of her lover and future husband, the Duke of Lauzun, Antonin Nompar de Caumont , she renounced the county in 1681 at the instigation of Madame de Maintenon in favor of Louis XIV's son Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine Eu. He bequeathed it to his childless son Louis Auguste de Bourbon, who left it to his brother Louis Charles de Bourbon. From this it went to Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre , who planned the construction of a canal from Le Tréport to Eu, then to his daughter Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre , who in 1769 was Louis-Philippe II Joseph de Bourbon , duc d'Orléans , called Philippe Égalité , married, whereby Eu fell to the House of Orléans in the next generation .
Louise Marie Adélaïde outlived her husband, who was guillotined during the French Revolution, by nearly three decades. She was born in 1821 by her eldest son Louis-Philippe III. d'Orléans, who later became King of the French Louis-Philippe , who from 1828 had extensive work carried out on the long-neglected palace complex and made Eu Palace his family's summer residence.
Louis-Philippe received Queen Victoria of Great Britain there in 1843 for the first meeting of the monarchs of these two countries since the memorable encounter between Henry VIII and Francis I at the Camp du Drap d'Or (German: Feld des Güldenen Tuches ) in 1520. A second meeting took place at a later date, also in Schloss Eu.
On November 11, 1902, a fire destroyed the entire southern part of the castle, only part of the castle chapel was spared from the fire. The building was rebuilt from 1905 under Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu and his son Pedro de Alcántara d'Orléans. After various changes of ownership, the city of Eu acquired the castle in 1964 and set up a museum there in 1973.
literature
- Castle Eu . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 20 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig November 11, 1843, p. 305-306 ( books.google.de ).
- Visit of Queen Victoria to King Ludwig Philipp . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 20 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig November 11, 1843, p. 308-312 ( books.google.de ).
- Alban Duparc: Le musée Louis-Philippe du château d'Eu. Eu 2008.
- Martine Bailleux-Delbecq, Xavier Dufestel: Le Brésil au château d'Eu . In: La collection Brasiliana, musée de la Vie romantique . Paris 2005.
- Martine Bailleux-Delbecq, Xavier Dufestel: Le Brésil impérial dans les collections du château d'Eu, catalog d'exposition, musée Louis-Philippe . Eu 2005.
- Xavier Dufestel: Les Villages de Liberté d'Isabelle . In: Bulletin des Amys du vieil Eu . Eu, 1999.
Web links
- Museum website (French)
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '57.8 " N , 1 ° 25' 0.7" E