Name -
Chateau de Verteuil
Location -
Verteuil-sur-Charente
Department -
Charente 16
State -
Chateau
The Chateau de Verteuil in Verteuil-sur-Charente occupies a strategic site on the valley of the Charente.
It is a chateau which, of the historical memories which are attached to it, and by the artistic richnesses that it contains, continues to remain one of the most remarkable monuments of the Charente.
In 1080, the Chateau de Verteuil which already belonged to the family of La Rochefoucauld, is besieged by Bernard, comte de la Marche.
En 1235, ts first siege by Vougrain II, comte d'Angouleme
King Philippe VI remains there in 1332.
By the treaty of Bretigny in 1360, it is given to the English. It is taken again in 1385 by the duc de Bourbon, then it is taken and taken again and finally partly demolished and cut down according to the texts of the time.
In 1446, Guillaume de Rochefoucauld obtains from the King the right to rebuild the defenses, a wall and two towers.
The current chateau dates from the XVth century, if we believe this, it would have been built in 1459, to replace the feudal castle built in the XIth century and dismantled in 1442 by order of the king Charles VII, following Praguerie.
The Chatellenie of Verteuil was set up in the XVth century; it extended onto then sixteen parishes and it included/understood sixty two strongholds.
The castle, furnished and inhabited, remained family property of the family of La Rochefoucauld, and also belonged to Anne de Amodio, until her death in 1980. It would seem that it belongs now to the Comte Sixte of Rochefoucauld-Estissac.
The name of this very former aristocratic family dates from the Xth century to the famous site castral angoumoisin, owned by the current duke.
In the middle, a park designed in the XIXth century, the chateau which dominates is set as a triangular fortification.
It has been a classified historic building since March 1966.
