Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
château fort
Marchainville, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Quatre tours en ruines et vestiges des remparts les reliant (cad. H 52, 55) : inscription par arrêté du 28 décembre 1978
- Protection dates
- 1978/12/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château fort
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Marchainville
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.58381, 0.81200
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110846
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château fort fut élevé par le comte du Perche Geoffroy IV. Charles le Mauvais, roi de Navarre, qui menait la guerre aux côtés des Anglais contre Charles V, s'empara de la forteresse en 1364 et s'y enferma. Philippe le Hardi l'assiégea et s'en rendit maître. En 1464, les Anglais incendièrent l'édifice et rasèrent les murs. Le château conserve les vestiges de six tours et, à l'ouest et au nord, l'emplacement des anciens fossés et remparts.
English translation
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History
The castle keep was raised by the count of Perche, Geoffroy IV. Charles the Bad, king of Navarre, who was waging war on the side of the English against Charles V, seized the fortress in 1364 and shut himself up in it. Philippe the Bold besieged it and made himself master of it. In 1464, the English burned the building and razed the walls. The castle retains vestiges of six towers and, to the west and north, the site of the former moats and ramparts.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.