Montsabert Castle
The Montabert Castle is a castle in the village of Coutures of the municipality Brissac Loire Aubance in the department of Maine-et-Loire . Located about seven kilometers south of the Loire between Angers and Saumur , it is one of the Loire castles . The system goes into an Angevin castle of the 14th century and is back since August 7, 1986 as a monument historique under monument protection .
history
In the 14th century, the former castle belonged to Guy de Pommerieux, Seigneur de Pommerieux in the southern part of the Mayenne department . Later it was owned by Jeanne de Laval-Tinténiac , who brought it into her marriage to Bertrand du Guesclin in 1374 , a connétable of France since 1370 . Du Guesclin had the complex rebuilt and strengthened in view of the latent threat from the English between 1374 and 1380 . From now on, two enclosing walls , three mighty towers of different sizes and machicolations were to protect the castle.
After the Connétable's death, Montsabert remained in the possession of the Laval line of the House of Montmorency . It came into the possession of Gilles de Rais , Du Guesclin's great-nephew and Marshal of France .
In November 1575, Montsabert came into the possession of the Aubigné family, who rebuilt the complex in the Renaissance style and built the castle chapel , which still exists today . Later it was the Le Maistre families, who had been the owners since April 1630, and Goislard de Montsabert, who married in November 1676, who had further renovations carried out on the castle from the 17th century onwards. These included the construction of an orangery and the enlargement of the windows. The outer ring wall of the complex was gradually demolished during the redesign until nothing was left of it in the 19th century.
Under the direction of the architect René Hodé (1811–1874), the complex was restored in the second half of the 19th century . The castle then served as a holiday home for children of Francolor employees for more than 30 years.
literature
- Emmanuelle Souchet, Nicole Ballon, Linda Castagnie, et al .: Pays de la Loire. Nouvelles éd. de l'Université, Paris 2008, ISBN 9782746921054 , p. 205 ( online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Yves Blomme: Anjou gothique. Picard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7084-0543-8 , p. 21.
- ↑ pays-de-la-loire.culture.gouv.fr , accessed on February 21, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Le Bulletin héraldique de France ou Revue historique de la noblesse. Volume 7 (New Series). Administration du Bulletin héraldique de France, Paris 1894, col. 668 ( online ).
- ↑ Pierre Mevellec: Château, orangerie et chapelle ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed February 21, 2012.
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 33 " N , 0 ° 20 ′ 38" W.