CHÂTEAU DE LA FERTÉ-IMBAULT

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From this day around the year 1000, where a group of riders, stopped to find a location favourable to the construction of a fortress, the castle that Humbold, known as Tortu, Lord of Vierzon built, which is an integral part of the village.

The place is perfect: in this place remains of the remains of a Gallic fortification and Sauldre court nearby. This vast region, then called " saecalonia" (country rye) saw passing Jules César and his troops during the conquest of the countries carnute and biturige.

Soon two solid towers rose trendy, hidden by a arms room, and on the hill a wall flanked by two corner towers. The castle of the FERTE-IMBAULT was born. The years are passed, the Lords of Ferté-Imbault go crusade, and their banner can float on all the battlefields of overseas. Several will die in the battles. While the Hundred years War made fumes, Prince Noir, the oldest son king of Angleterre, leave behind it only desolation and ash and Jeanne Lorraine visit king de France, Charles VII, via Ferté-Imbault that does it become this castle?

Taken, despite its five lines defence, it is no more than la calcina walls. The village, whose no house remains, will not find any more its prosperity.

It is the family of Stamps, early 16th century, that the castle reappear its ruins. But it is Jacques of Etampes, Maréchal de Camp, Captain Bodyguards of Gaston of Orléans, brother of Louis XIII, who built in 1627, according to the principles of architecture of the time, preserving the parts used, a beautiful unity of which most subist today. Large communal rise each side of the main courtyard and accompany the main building and two houses that surround the inner courtyard. For pleasure a vast park is closed, a wall that still exists. For centuries, the castle will change hands, many times.

This castle, evidence of History, whose stones have a soul, is like those illustrated its name, the name Ferté-Imbault.