Name - Chateau de l'Oisellerie
Location - La Couronne
Department - Charente 16
Private
State - Chateau

The Chateau de l'Oisellerie is located on the commune of La Couronne, close to Angouleme in the Charente; it shelters a agricultural college.

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Its name comes from the fauconnery concerned with the Abbaye Notre-Dame-de-la-Couronne.
The construction of the chateau begins in 1498, the square turret containing the spiral staircase. She is undertaken by Arnauld Calluaud, alderman of Angouleme, the time of Louise of Savoy, countess of Angouleme.

His/her Guillaume son became public prosecutor of king François Ier and his/her eveque Jean son of Senlis and abbot of the Crown increases and embellishes the castle. He increased it by adding a main building and round tower.
François Ier remained there on the way of his return of Madrid when it was released in 1526.

Jean Calluaud, ruined, especially by a litigation with the Notre-Dame abbey of the Crown sells it in 1678. He will be resold then repurchased by the Maulde family which will keep it two centuries.

At the beginning of the XXth century settles a school of agriculture then transformed into agricultural college.
Since 1989, the castle belongs to the Conseil general.
The castle is classified Historic building in 1911 .
The first castle which constitutes one of the wings is a multi-story building, with the sloping roof covered with tiles punts; a square turret which contains the spiral staircase
Two turrets form the angles of the primitive court. A square house was built later between the square turret and the southern pinion.
The large northern wing, the cylindrical tower and the rectangular house are middle of the XVIth century.
Some of the roofs are covered with tiles punts, others of slates.