Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château
Ham, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (ruines) (cad. A 16) : inscription par arrêté du 9 mars 1965
- Protection dates
- 1965/03/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Ham
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.74345, 3.07310
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116172
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 — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Picardia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cité dans une charte de 1052, le château de Ham fut reconstruit au 13e siècle par Odon IV de Ham qui lui donna son plan définitif, composé d'une enceinte polygonale cantonnée de grosses tours cylindriques. Enguerrand de Coucy racheta la seigneurie en 1380 et sa fille la revendit en 1400 à Louis d'Orléans qui l'intégra à son réseau de forteresses, parmi lesquelles La Ferté-Milon, Pierrefonds et Fère-en-Tardenois. On doit à son intense activité de bâtisseur la reconstruction de la forteresse, reconstruction parachevée après 1418 par Louis de Luxembourg, qui avait acquis la seigneurie à la suite de l'assassinat de Louis d'Orléans. Pourvu d'une chemise bastionnée au 16e siècle, le château, converti en prison d'Etat au 18e siècle, reçut comme hôtes illustres Mirabeau et, surtout, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, qui s'en évada de façon rocambolesque en 1846. Dynamité par les Allemands en 1917, le château ne conserve plus aujourd'hui en élévation que sa tour d'entrée, de plan carré, ainsi qu'une partie de son réseau d'enceintes.
English translation
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History
Mentioned in a charter of 1052, the castle of Ham was rebuilt in the 13th century by Odon IV of Ham who gave it its definitive plan, composed of a polygonal curtain wall flanked with large cylindrical towers. Enguerrand de Coucy repurchased the lordship in 1380 and his daughter resold it in 1400 to Louis of Orléans who integrated it into his network of fortresses, among which La Ferté-Milon, Pierrefonds and Fère-en-Tardenois. The intensive building activity of this lord is responsible for the reconstruction of the fortress, reconstruction completed after 1418 by Louis of Luxembourg, who had acquired the lordship following the assassination of Louis of Orléans. Provided with a bastioned outer wall in the 16th century, the castle, converted into a state prison in the 18th century, received as illustrious guests Mirabeau and, above all, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, who escaped from it in spectacular fashion in 1846. Dynamited by the Germans in 1917, the castle today preserves in elevation only its entrance tower, of square plan, and part of its network of curtain walls.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.