La Clayette Castle
The La Clayette castle (French: Château de La Clayette ) is a moated castle in the French commune of the same name in the Charolles arrondissement of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region .
The castle was classified as a Monument historique on January 21, 1946 and thus placed under monument protection. Subsequently, and for the last time on October 1, 2002, the monument protection was extended to other elements of the palace such as the courtyard, the orangery and the chapel. It is privately owned and cannot be viewed.
description
Surrounded by water, the castle lies on a rectangle. The castle consists of a building complex with a main building in the northern part and two parallel rectangular outbuildings, each with an overhanging corner tower, which frame a courtyard. In the center of the main house is a square tower, which is flanked to the east by two round towers. From this main entrance to the castle, a road leads east across the lake to a gate. A gallery leads from the narrower round towers of the main tower to the south to a large round tower. Another building from the 18th century adjoins the main tower in the west.
history
La Clayette Castle was the center of one of the largest estates in the region from the 14th century until the French Revolution. In 1380, Philibert de Lespinasse transformed an existing fortification, which was used to collect customs, into a castle with round towers. In 1420 the castle of Louis de Chantemerle fell , whose family belonged to the entourage of the Dukes of Burgundy. On August 2, 1524, Francis I , the Knight King , on his way to Lyon , spent a night in the castle.
In 1632, with the death of Alice-Éléonore de Chantemerle, ownership fell to her husband Paul de Damas and thus to the House of Damas. In 1703, with the death of Jean-Léonard de Damas, the Palatine de Dyo inherited the property. In the following years, the castle changed hands several times. On November 4, 1722, Bernard de Noblet acquired La Clayette for 160,000 livres and 1,800 bottles of wine. Bernard de Noblet became Baron von Clayette and Baron von Tremont. In 1736 La Clayette was made a county and from then on the castle remained in the possession of the same family.
The Noblet family from Anglure
- Bernard de Noblet
- Alexandre Marie de Noblet, Marquis d'Anglure, son of Bernard de Noblet (* 1699)
- Charles-Etienne de Noblet, knight, son of Alexandre Marie de Noblet (* 1739 in the castle)
- Etienne Angélique Victor de Noblet d'Anglure, comte de la Clayette (Count of Clayette), son of Charles-Etienne de Noblet (1772–1847)
- Charles, Marquis de Noblet d'Anglure, son of Etienne Angélique Victor de Noblet d'Anglure (1822–1898)
- Abel, Marquis de Noblet d'Anglure, son of Charles de Noblet (1856–1927)
- Gonzague, Marquis de Noblet d'Anglure, son of Abel de Noblet (1888–1983)
- Bernard, Marquis de Noblet d'Anglure, son of Gonzage (1925–1991)
- Amaury, Marquis de Noblet d'Anglure, brother of Bernard (* 1929)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry no.PA00113218 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on January 14, 2013
Coordinates: 46 ° 17 ′ 36 ″ N , 4 ° 18 ′ 21 ″ E