Point of interest Bouteville - Bouteville castle - Photo

Bouteville castle

Description

There was on this hill a villa built by the Romans during their occupation, that they called Bota villa, then renamed Bouteville by the Francs. This villa was built to monitor the Roman road linking Périgueux in Saintes, commonly called Chemin Boisne.

The first castle fortress probably dates the Norman invasions.

The castle belonged in the eleventh century to the Taillefer family. In 1176, it was one of many fortresses surrendered to the King of England, Richard the Lion Heart. In 1356 Bouteville is still in British hands. The Black Prince made walls consolidated. Restitution to the French was achieved in 1392. After it passed successively into the hands of the Count of Angoulême, Charles d'Orleans and Montmorency-Bouteville. I was in ruins in 1550.

The present castle, which replaced the medieval fortress was rebuilt between 1594 and 1624 by Bernard de Beon Les Masses and Louise de Luxembourg.
Les Masses' family held until 1725 when it passed to Bruzac-Henri de Hautefort. This family kept the castle in turn until 1787 when the lordship of Bouteville was incorporated into the domain of the Comte d'Artois (Charles-Philippe, the future king Charles X).
During the French Revolution, it was confiscated when the Comte d'Artois emigrated, it then served as a prison and was sold as a national asset in the year XI, or 1802.

The acquirer, Antoine Marcombe, came from a bourgeois family of the village of Bouteville. After Marcombe's family who kept throughout the nineteenth century.

The castle had several other owners in the twentieth century.
The castle was inhabited until about 1935 when it was destroyed by fire due to an electrical failure of the new system. Abandoned in ruins, the castle was bought by the village which launched its reconstruction ...

Photos

Bouteville castle can be discovered in the following trails...
Trail Motor Saint-Preuil - The Grande Champagne away from beaten track - Photo
Motor
Relais-Saint-Preuil

Motor

Medium
(3)
Saint-Preuil, New Aquitaine, Charente, France
53 km | 63 km-effort
2h 40min
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Positioning

Country:
France
Region :
New Aquitaine
Department/Province :
Charente
Municipality :
Bouteville
Location:
Unknown
Creation date :
2018-04-10 13:55:20.495
Updated on
2018-04-10 13:55:20.495

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