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Ruines du château

Mongaillard, Lot-et-Garonne, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Château (les ruines) : inscription par arrêté du 7 janvier 1926
Protection dates
1926/01/07 : inscrit MH
Type
château
Main period of construction
13e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Mongaillard
Département
Lot-et-Garonne
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
44.20774, 0.29361
Mérimée reference
PA00084181

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

A la fin du 13e siècle, le seigneur rendait hommage au roi d'Angleterre. La forteresse comprenait un mur d'enceinte polygonal enserrant le village, dont les murailles avaient une épaisseur de 1, 50m et une hauteur de 8 à 10 mètres. L'ensemble des vestiges subsistants remonte vraisemblablement à la fin du 12e ou au début du 13e siècle. Ils comrpennent un fragment important du donjon avec l'arrachement de son escalier à vis, ainsi que deux salles voûtées superposées, et un pan de mur de l'ancien corps de logis comportant les traces de deux étages avec leurs fenêtres autrefois géminées.

English translation

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At the end of the 13th century, the lord did homage to the King of England. The fortress comprised a polygonal enclosure wall enclosing the village, of which the walls had a thickness of 1.50m and a height of 8 to 10 metres. The ensemble of subsisting remains dates probably to the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. They comprise an important fragment of the keep with the tear of its spiral staircase, as well as two superimposed vaulted rooms, and a section of wall of the old main dwelling comprising the traces of two storeys with their windows formerly in pairs.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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