Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Cisai
Cisai-Saint-Aubin, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Tour de l'angle nord-est du logis ; tour à l'angle sud-est de la cour ; douves les reliant (cad. F 8) : inscription par arrêté du 19 juin 1991
- Protection dates
- 1991/06/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Cisai-Saint-Aubin
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.77593, 0.34177
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110994
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1759 map "62 Argentan, Falaise." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château connu comme maison forte dès le 12e siècle. Odon Borleng, gouverneur de Gacé, y entreposait le butin résultant du pillage des populations. Richard de l'Aigle s'en empara, et la maison forte devint château fort avec douves et tours de défense aux angles. A la fin du 15e siècle, Guillaume Erard, fait chevalier par François Ier, reconstruisit la demeure selon un plan en équerre, dans le style Renaissance, avec deux tours. De la construction du 16e siècle subsiste l'aile nord-est. A la fin du 16e siècle, le château Renaissance fut doublé vers l'ouest. Les deux autres tours à mâchicoulis furent sans doute construites à ce moment. Occupé pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale, une explosion endommagea la grande salle du rez-de-chaussée. Seul subsiste un décor peint du 17e siècle sur une poutre.
English translation
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History
Castle known as a fortified house from the 12th century. Odon Borleng, governor of Gacé, stored there the booty resulting from the pillaging of populations. Richard de l'Aigle seized it, and the fortified house became a castle fort with moats and defensive towers at the angles. At the end of the 15th century, Guillaume Erard, made knight by François Ier, rebuilt the dwelling according to an L-shaped plan, in Renaissance style, with two towers. From the construction of the 16th century subsists the north-east wing. At the end of the 16th century, the Renaissance castle was doubled towards the west. The two other towers with machicolations were probably constructed at this time. Occupied during the Second World War, an explosion damaged the great hall of the ground floor. Only a painted decoration of the 17th century on a beam subsists.
Nearby in the register
- Domaine du château des Lettiers (également sur commune de Cisai-Saint-Aubin)château2 mi
- Châteauchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.