The Château de Pierrefort is a ruined

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in the ''

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'' of Martincourt in the

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'' of France.

History

The earliest recorded mention of the castle is in a work by Richard de Wissembourg, ''Antiquitez de la Gaule Belgique, Royaume de France, Austrasie et Lorraine'', which says that before the present castle there was an older one ''"tout ruyné et démoly"'' ("completely ruined and demolished"). The new fortress was built in 1306. In 1300,

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, younger son (among 13 siblings) of

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, received from his older brother

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among other estates, the lands of Martincourt and Mamey. In 1306, his legal documents mention : "''A savoir, le chastel que je fais dessour Martincourt et la forteresse et les appendises toutes entièrement dou dit chastel''."Lucien Geindre
"Château de Pierrefort"
''Le pays lorrain'' (Journal of the société d'archéologie lorraine et du musée historique lorrain), 1980. Vol 61, N°2. pp 83-90 It has been listed since 1862 as a '' monument historique'' by the

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