Vixouze Castle

Vixouze Castle

The Vixouze Castle ( French Château de Vixouze ) is a medieval castle complex in the French commune of Polminhac in the Cantal department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region .

The entire castle , including the kitchen, dining room, the hall on the first floor of the dungeon, the hall on the second floor with a monumental fireplace, the room with pilasters, the room in the north room, the chapel and the bakery were opened on November 7th Classified as Monument historique in 2000 and thus placed under monument protection.

description

The central square defense tower dates from the 13th century. This tower was rebuilt in the 15th century, the stairs date from this time. The tower has square rooms and an attic on the ground floor and first floor. One barn is dated to 1613. Two wings and the boundary wall date from the year 1719. The chapel and the baking room date from the 17th century. The fountain at the entrance to the castle was built after 1811.

history

Vixoue is described for the first time in 930 in a gift from Bernard de Carlat Viscount of Carlat to the Abbot of Conques as a villa - villa mea que vocatur Vidditiosa

Vixouze is badly damaged in the Hundred Years War and rebuilt in the 15th century.

Vixouze family

• Guillelmi and Henrici de Vicsozas, the two brothers, gave the tower and the castle to the Viscount of Carlat as a fief in 1267
• Peyre de Vixouze , ruled over Vixouze
• His daughter married Aldebert or Audebert Brunenc around 1380 and brought her fiefdom Vixouze into the family of Hugues Brunnenc (song about Galiane d'Aurillac), known as the troubadour .

Brunnenc family

• Ramon Brunnenc or in French Raymond Brunet, Lord of Vixouze, passed the property on:

• Guiral Brunenc de Vixouze , Lord of Vixouse, bought the Comblat Castle. He was in command of Turland Castle in 1470. He was followed by his son:
• Jacques Brunenc de Vixouze , Lord of Vixouze and Comblat . He was feudal lord of Jacques d'Armagnac , Vicomte de Carlat.

Pagès de Vixouze family

• Louise de Comblat , married Blaise Pagès from Rigal, lord of Espeils, and brought Vixouze as a dowry. From this marriage came:
• Françoise Pagès , was married on July 16, 1636 to Paul Lacarrière (* 1604), since July 22, 1599, Deputy Bailiff of Carladès .
• Blaise Pagès , lord of Vixouze and Les Huttes. His descendant:
• Antoine Pagès de Vixouze, first consul of Aurillac , married Madeleine Boudet, daughter of Guillaume, lord of Senilhe, and Marguerite Cambefort de Mazic on April 25, 1736 in Aurillac. They had seven children including:
• François-Xavier Pagès de Vixouze , (1745–1802), French journalist and Jacobin who founded the Cantalist newspaper to stand up for the ideals of the French Revolution. Several works by him about this period have survived. In 1767 he married Catherine Justine Breu in Italy, the marriage was divorced in 1793 in Aurillac. He married Lacarrière de La Tour for the second time. His daughter and heiress came from his marriage to Justine Breu:
• Catherine-Rose-Euphrosine Pagès de Vixouze , married the royal lawyer Jean-François Malroux-Désaurières on April 24, 1787 in Aurillac. She had two daughters:
  • Eugène Malroux-Désaurières
  • Amélie Malroux-Désaurières .

Dessauret d'Auliac family

• Amélie-Anne-Catherine Malroux-Desaurières , heiress of Vixouze, married Pierre Dessauret d'Auliac (1787–1868), Mayor of Saint-Flour . They had an heir:
• Pierre-Charles Dessauret d'Auliac , died at Vixouze Castle in 1882.

The Vixouze castle was sold by the heirs in 1913.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vixouze Castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on June 7, 2012.
2. ↑ Cartulaire de Conques n ° 6.
3. ↑ Bruno Phalip, 1990, p. 1243.
4. ↑ Saige et Dienne, tome I, p. 72.

Web links

• Vixouze Castle website , accessed on July 9, 2016.

Coordinates: 44 ° 56 ′ 26 "  N , 2 ° 35 ′ 37"  E