Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes du château
La Roche-Maurice, Finistère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (cad. A 992) : inscription par arrêté du 18 octobre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/10/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- La Roche-Maurice
- Département
- Finistère
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.47301, -4.20562
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090401
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 3: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancien château des Rohan, vicomtes de Léon, construit au 13e siècle, puis restauré et agrandi après 1420. En 1490, l'édifice est pris d'assaut par les troupes royales puis abandonné. Il semble avoir été démoli sur l'ordre de Henri IV.
English translation
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History
Former castle of the Rohan, viscounts of Léon, built in the 13th century, then restored and enlarged after 1420. In 1490, the building was stormed by royal troops and then abandoned. It appears to have been demolished on the orders of Henri IV.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Yveségliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Edernéglise2 mi
- Manoir de Kermadecmanoir2 mi
- Église en ruines de Pont-Christéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.