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Castles In France
This is a list of castles in France, arranged by Region and Department. ;Notes: # The French word ''château'' has a wider meaning than the English ''castle'': it includes architectural entities that are properly called palaces, mansions or vineyards in English. This list focuses primarily on architectural entities that may be properly termed ''castle'' or ''fortress'' (french: château-fort), and excludes entities not built around a substantial older castle that is still evident. # Occasionally, where there is not a specific article on a castle, links are given to another article that includes details, typically an article on a town. # ''Italics'' indicate links to articles in the French Wikipedia. # If no article appears in either English or French Wikipedias, a link is given to an external website. # The number in parentheses after the name of each department indicates the department number used for administrative purposes. # The number of castles in France is estimated to about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a palace, which is not fortified; from a fortress, which was not always a residence for royalty or nobility; from a ''pleasance'' which was a walled-in residence for nobility, but not adequately fortified; and from a fortified settlement, which was a public defence – though there are many similarities among these types of construction. Use of the term has varied over time and has also been applied to structures such as hill forts and 19th-20th century homes built to resemble castles. Over the approximately 900 years when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain walls, arrowslits, and portcullises, were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château De Montcornet
Montcornet Castle (french: Château de Montcornet) is a castle in the ''commune'' of Montcornet in the Ardennes ''département'' of France. History The castle was built between the 11th and 12th centuries by the first occupants, the Montcornets. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the fortress passed to Miles de Noyer and then to the Mello family. In 1446, Antoine I de Croy repurchased the castle and rebuilt it almost completely. In 1613, Charles of Gonzaga, who was in the process of building the nearby Charleville, capital of the Principauté d'Arches, purchases the castle. From then it passed into the hands of the Meillerais, then finally to the duke of Aiguillon, who dismantled it around 1760. Only ruins survive today. The artefacts excavated from the castle grounds—keys, currency, pottery, bones, etc.—are on display in a room of the castle. Château de Montcornet has been listed as a '' monument historique'' by the French Ministry of Culture since 1926. Archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste De Jaucourt
The Chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Jaucourt is a chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist in the ''commune'' of Jaucourt in the Aube ''département'' of France. It is the last remnant of the former castle. Description On a rectangular plan measuring 5.4 by 10 metres, its Romanesque doorway has a trefoil tympanum. History The chapel dates from the last quarter of the 12th century and the 13th century. It has been listed since 1994 as a ''monument historique'' by the French Ministry of Culture. See also *List of castles in France This is a list of castles in France, arranged by Region and Department. ;Notes: # The French word ''château'' has a wider meaning than the English ''castle'': it includes architectural entities that are properly called palaces, mansions or viney ... References External links * {{Coord, 48, 15, 30, N, 4, 38, 47, E, region:FR_type:landmark, display=title Monuments historiques of Grand Est Castles in Grand Est Churches in Aube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château De Droupt-Saint-Basle
The Château de Droupt-Saint-Basle is a castle and ''château'' in the ''commune'' of Droupt-Saint-Basle in the Aube ''département'' of France. History It was mentioned in 1206 as belonging to Girard, lord of Droupt. In 1580, the mayor of Troyes, Jean Mairat obtained the lands of Droupt and was authorised by to construct moats, drawbridges and walls. In 1586, he built a house there. In 1714, it became the property of the Chavaudon family, through Pierre Guillaume, Abbot of Notre-Dame de Mores. He and his brother, Etienne-Paul, undertook works on the buildings. The edifice was added to the list of ''monuments historiques'' in 1987 and 1993. The Paupe family who maintain it have installed a museum of popular arts. Description It still has water-filled moats, a drawbridge for carts and another for pedestrians in a monumental doorway. Three buildings arranged in a U-shape overlook a courtyard with several lawns and boxwood at the corners. A corner tower is a dovecote. See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château De Chacenay
19th century The Château de Chacenay is a castle situated in the ''commune'' of Chacenay, in the Aube ''département'' of France. History Recorded since 1075, it was the fief of numerous great families over the years. Construction of the castle began in the 13th century. The armoury room contains stone gargoyles that were carved by the same architect who carved the famous gargoyles of Notre Dame. Sited at the heart of a forest, in the Middle Ages it formed an impregnable fortress thanks to its ramparts, keep (now destroyed), ditches, drawbridge and towers. It was the meeting grounds for one of many of the crusades that happened throughout Europe. Damaged following the orders of Louis XI, it was over time reconstructed, and destroyed by fire during the French Revolution. Since 1988, the castle has been owned by Panos and Lina Pervanas. It has been listed since 1990 as a '' monument historique'' by the French Ministry of Culture, having been added to the inventory in 1926. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château De Bucey-en-Othe
The Château de Bucey-en-Othe is a castle in the ''commune'' of Bucey-en-Othe in the Aube ''département'' of France. Description The castle was constructed in the fourth quarter of the 16th century. An earlier castle existed to the east of the church. A 19th century survey described the castle as having moats filled with water, trunnions for a drawbridge, towers with arrowslits and an access to a ''chemin de ronde'' (wall walk).Émile Socard & Théophile Boutiot"Canton d'Estissac" ''Supplément au Répertoire Archéologique du Département de l'Aube'', 1861, Troyes, p 30 . Retrieved 27 December 2018. In square plan, the castle is today partially surrounded by water. Two square towers stand at the extremities. The entrances for people and carriages have been blocked to allow an extension to the ''logis'' in the 18th and 19th centuries have damaged the façade on the courtyard. This tower is surrounded by several buildings, including a dovecote. This type of manor was common in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château De Bar Sur Seine
A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions. Nowadays a ''château'' may be any stately residence built in a French style; the term is additionally often used for a winegrower's estate, especially in the Bordeaux region of France. Definition The word château is a French word that has entered the English language, where its meaning is more specific than it is in French. The French word ''château'' denotes buildings as diverse as a medieval fortress, a Renaissance palace and a fine 19th-century country house. Care should therefore be taken when translating the French word ''château'' into English, noting the nature of the building in question. Most French châteaux are " palaces" or fine "country houses" rather than "castles", and for these, the word "château" is appropriate in English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château D'Arrentières
right The Château d'Arrentières is a castle in the ''commune'' of Arrentières in the Aube ''département'' of France. History It was one of the first fortified houses of the Knights Templar from the commandery at Thors who were lords in the 12th century. It was recorded in 1238 as a castle and Jean d'Arrentières was authorised, in 1319, to found a chapel there. He was an important knight with his post as bailiff of le Vermandois and Chaumont. It was rased, because of felony by the lord, on the order of Louis XIII who had not accepted his conversion to Protestantism. The remains are the 13th century ditches and towers, and two towers and an underground room dating from the 15th century. One of the towers has been remodelled as a dovecote and the other serves as the base for a square building of the 18th century. It was the residence of Louis Ladislas of Lassus in the middle of the 19th century.Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe', p 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aube
Aube () is a French department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. As with sixty departments in France, this department is named after a river: the Aube. With 310,242 inhabitants (2019),Populations légales 2019: 10 Aube INSEE Aube is the 74th department in terms of population. The inhabitants of the department are known as ''Aubois'' or ''Auboises''. The department was constituted as it is today by a decree of the of 15 January 1790. Geography Location [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blason Département Fr Aube
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is Blazoen, and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric. History The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, ironically rejecting each proposed stock metaphor, is William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130: : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château De Sedan
Sedan Castle (french: Château de Sedan) is a castle situated in Sedan, France, Sedan, France, near the river Meuse. Covering an area of in its seven floors. History Around 1424, Eberhard II von der Mark built a manor with two towers around a church over a period of six years. When Eberhard died in 1440, his son Jean de la Marck began reinforcing the fortress, but it was Robert II de la Marck, the grandson of Jean, who finished the most important work. In 1530, the fortifications of the manor were modernised by the construction of a circular boulevard and terraces with cannons, thickening the curtain wall by an additional . The bastions were added during the course of the next century, but some of them were eventually dynamited at the end of the 19th century. In 1699, the principality having been absorbed into France in 1642 (see the Battle of Marfée, during the Thirty Years' War), and the castle having been transformed into a garrison, Vauban built the door ''of the Princes' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
