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The Château de Valognes was a castle in
The Château de Valognes was a castle in Valognes
Valognes () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Geography
Valognes is situated in the Cotentin Peninsula, southeast of Cherbourg. Valognes station has rail connections to Caen, Paris and Cherbourg.
Histor ...
, Manche
Manche (, ) is a coastal French département in Normandy, on the English Channel, which is known as ''La Manche'', literally "the sleeve", in French. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.Bertrand du Guesclin
Bertrand du Guesclin ( br, Beltram Gwesklin; 1320 – 13 July 1380), nicknamed "The Eagle of Brittany" or "The Black Dog of Brocéliande", was a Breton knight and an important military commander on the French side during the Hundred Years' Wa ...
captured it in 1364 and 1374 from the English garrisons. The castle was destroyed under orders of King Louis XIV of France
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
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, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of ...
in 1689, leaving only a small tower, which was destroyed by bombing in 1944.
References
*Stéphane William Gondoin. ''Les châteaux forts au temps de Guillaume le Conquérant''. September 2015 * G. Le Barbanchon. ''Le château de Valognes et ses origines'' in: ''Revue de la Manche'', tome I, fasc. 2, April 1959 Castles in Manche Former castles in France {{Normandy-stub