Montaigle Castle (french: Château de Montaigle) is a ruined medieval castle in
Falaën
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in the municipality of
Onhaye
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On 1 January 2006 Onhaye had a total population of 3,120. The total area is which gives a population density of .
The municipality consists of the following dist ...
,
province of Namur
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,
Wallonia
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.
It was built in the 14th century, and destroyed by
Henry II of France
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in 1554. It stands on a rocky spur overlooking the valleys of the
Molignée and of the
Flavion.
The site was used during the
Late Roman
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period for a Belgo-Roman fortification.
Montaiglian, the first name of
Aurignacian
The Aurignacian () is an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic
associated with European early modern humans (EEMH) lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago. The Upper Paleolithic developed in Europe some time after the Levant, where t ...
Following the official web-site of Onhaye, ''The Belgian government commissioned in 1867 the geologist Édouard Dupont to study the caves (locally called trous, lit., "holes") located in the rocky spur of Montaigle. He named each of them after the trees growing near the cave's entrance; Trou du Sureau (Elder), Trou du Chêne (Oak), Trou de l'Erable (Maple), except the lowest one, named Trou Philippe after the name of the hermit who lived therein. Prehistoric remains were found in all of these caves; Dupont described the Cro-Magnon civilization years before the French paleontologists, but the French nomenclature was adopted, though. The "Montaiglian" layer was later renamed "
Aurignacian
The Aurignacian () is an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic
associated with European early modern humans (EEMH) lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago. The Upper Paleolithic developed in Europe some time after the Levant, where t ...
", after the cave of Aurignac in the Pyrénées. '' This opinion is also indirectly in a book of
Marcel Otte
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Hawthorne Harris Wilder wrote yet in 1924 ''Montaiglian (or Augniracian)''
[Hawthorne Harris Wilder ''Man's Prehistoric Past'' London, 1924, p.393.]
See also
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List of castles in Belgium
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Notes
External links
Website of the Friends of Montaigle
Manuel d'archéologie préhistorique celtique et gallo-romaine : prehistorique celtique et gallo-romaine (1908)View of the word ''Montaiglien'']
Montaigle Castle Ruins, Falaën, Belgium
Ruined castles in Belgium
Castles in Belgium
Castles in Namur (province)
Wallonia's Major Heritage
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