ellapronkraft.
2015-09-07 Chateau de Villebois-Lavalette, Charente, Poitou Charentes DSCN9789
On the road to Ronsenac, Chateau de Villebois-Lavalette.
Villebois pass in the thirteenth century the Lusignan, counts of Angoulême raising existing walls with their seven towers. Victim of several sieges during the Hundred Years War Villebois is taken to the English in 1376 by the Duke of Berry, brother of Charles V.
During the wars of religion Villebois is largely destroyed.
The lords of Mareuil are among the successive owners. In 1590 Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, Duc d'Épernon and governor from Angoumois 15883, besieged the castle where Leaguers were entrenched. He acquired the land from Villebois land as fief and erected in 1622 by letters patent, a duchy and peerage, the Duchy of Lavalette, hence the name of Villebois-Lavalette.
Young Louis XIII stayed there with his new wife, Anne of Austria, invited by the Duke of Epernon. He arrived December 28, 1615 by way of the ridges.
In 1660, Bernard de Nogaret, Duc de La Valette, son and heir of Jean-Louis Nogaret and did himself no heir, sold the land of Villebois-Lavalette and his title and his lands and Vibrac Angeac, Philippe de Montaut-Bénac, Duke of Navailles4,5.
In 1662 the Duke of Navailles and Valletta, away from the court of Louis XIV, retired on his land. He razed the old fortress and built the castle of which only the north wing.
In the early twentieth century it was the property of Dr. Maurice de Fleury, grandfather of actor Bernard Lavalette.
It remains the chapel of the old castle of the twelfth century.
The castle and the Gallo-Roman villa that had preceded it, has not yet found a trace.
The Duke of Navailles in 1665 had razed the fortress founded in the eleventh century; he preserved only the walls dating from Lusignan to rebuild the castle.
After a fire December 10, 1822 which destroyed the right wing, leaving only the left wing of the castle.
The left wing is occupied by the owner.
Since 1980, the association of friends of the castle of Villebois-Lavalette organizes sites. The wall is slowly regaining its aspect of the thirteenth century with the battlements of the west facade, the roof of one of the towers, and other restorations.
2015-09-07 Chateau de Villebois-Lavalette, Charente, Poitou Charentes DSCN9789
On the road to Ronsenac, Chateau de Villebois-Lavalette.
Villebois pass in the thirteenth century the Lusignan, counts of Angoulême raising existing walls with their seven towers. Victim of several sieges during the Hundred Years War Villebois is taken to the English in 1376 by the Duke of Berry, brother of Charles V.
During the wars of religion Villebois is largely destroyed.
The lords of Mareuil are among the successive owners. In 1590 Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, Duc d'Épernon and governor from Angoumois 15883, besieged the castle where Leaguers were entrenched. He acquired the land from Villebois land as fief and erected in 1622 by letters patent, a duchy and peerage, the Duchy of Lavalette, hence the name of Villebois-Lavalette.
Young Louis XIII stayed there with his new wife, Anne of Austria, invited by the Duke of Epernon. He arrived December 28, 1615 by way of the ridges.
In 1660, Bernard de Nogaret, Duc de La Valette, son and heir of Jean-Louis Nogaret and did himself no heir, sold the land of Villebois-Lavalette and his title and his lands and Vibrac Angeac, Philippe de Montaut-Bénac, Duke of Navailles4,5.
In 1662 the Duke of Navailles and Valletta, away from the court of Louis XIV, retired on his land. He razed the old fortress and built the castle of which only the north wing.
In the early twentieth century it was the property of Dr. Maurice de Fleury, grandfather of actor Bernard Lavalette.
It remains the chapel of the old castle of the twelfth century.
The castle and the Gallo-Roman villa that had preceded it, has not yet found a trace.
The Duke of Navailles in 1665 had razed the fortress founded in the eleventh century; he preserved only the walls dating from Lusignan to rebuild the castle.
After a fire December 10, 1822 which destroyed the right wing, leaving only the left wing of the castle.
The left wing is occupied by the owner.
Since 1980, the association of friends of the castle of Villebois-Lavalette organizes sites. The wall is slowly regaining its aspect of the thirteenth century with the battlements of the west facade, the roof of one of the towers, and other restorations.