Castle of Montecler

The castle of Montecler is located at Châtres-the-Forest in the department of the Mayenne.

History: of Launay à Montecler

Montecler results from old the seigniory from Launay or Aunay-Péan . It concerned in the past the stronghold of the Tremblay to Saint-Christophe-of-Luat the, and in sub-fief of Entrammes, which deferred to Castle-Gontier. With the strongholds and seigniories of Roussière and Moncrintin , it was, by act of March 18th 1605, set up in châtellenie of Aunay , " with responsibility of raise of the baron of Holy-Suzanne under the duty of a sparrowhawk flying with the glove for the porter" .

In January 1616, to recognize the services of Urbain de Montecler , " even with the last mouvements" , the king Louis XIII sets up the châtellenie titrates some, dignity and preeminence of marquisat , under the name of Montecler .

February 21st 1644, André de Montecler, who had just acquired the seigniory of Tremblay, obtained from the baron d' Entrammes to nûment concern nûment the king, in frank noble freehold, at a rate of its baronnie of Castle-Gontier . New acquisitions and invaluable privileges increased and decorated then Montecler. The title of marquisat concerned directly the crown; strongholds of Moncrintin, Paillerie, Saugère, Saint-Leger, Pines, Saint-Christophe , of Holy-Suzanne, " with fifteen days load of garde" ; Tremblay, of Castle-Gontier.

The castle of Montecler

If large that it is, the castle of Montecler remained unfinished. It is a vast main building ( " of a monotony désespérante" , known as too severely Paludous Leon), mutilated besides, and which never had its complement by the rise in the slim roofs and the pediments, and especially by the creation of a second house which one still sees the stones of waiting. That François-Augustin Gérault wrongfully allots to the 15th century, and which on the contrary offers the type completed like decoration that was to reproduce with more richness the principal building, really beautiful, especially with its appendix is so curiously crowned of a roof to the distorted shapes, at the top of which is perforated an air gallery. Leon Palustre wants to recognize well originality in the house of the drawbridge always in place. It was much more remarkable still before the fall of another house, of an elegant architecture , which accosted it.

Inside, one notices especially big room a 14 m length, and a room with a beautiful chimney in painted and carved skirtings . This gilded room is indeed remarkable. Shouldn't one allot decoration of it to a painter originating in Castle-Gontier, Aimé Bouvier , which one sees installed with the castle in 1693?

In the vault of Midsummer's Day, extremely modest, founded by Andre de Montecler towards 1631, Émery of Ferté, bishop of Mans, managed the confirmation on July 21st 1641, and the marquis de Montecler made transfer in 1752 the service from the vault from Saugère .

The stables which attiennent there are arched and surmounted by a large part known as " room of the gardes" , memory of the time when the Montecler exerted important military commands.

June 26th 1791, the national guard of Évron comes to remove castle some weapons and an old gun, given to Urbain de Montecler by the cardinal of Richelieu. The ground is put under sequestration during the Révolution, and them wood around are the theater many combat. April 4th 1793, the national guards of Évron excavate wood " to surprise suspect people who meet " for a long time there; . January 6th 1795, the republicans encircle there a small band of Chouan S, which in spite of their small number pushes back the troop. April 5th 1795, the chouans remove the grains of the attics and charge them on horses. The royalist general Claude-Augustin de Tercier (° 1752 - † 1823) comes also in January 1796 to drive out the " pillards" which devastates the surroundings.

Morin, in its turn, with refractories of 1812, often occupies the wood of Montecler. Lastly, on May 27th 1832, they is with the castle that meet the royalist insurrectionists, ready to try a knack on Évron, when the counter-order comes.

Lords of Montecler

Before Montecler

Hamelinus de Alneto, miles , Fromond of Aunay , had in guard the ground of Philippe of Aunay , of the parishes of Châtres and of Saint-Christophe, quoted in the investigation into the royal officers in 1247, are undoubtedly of former lords of Aunay-Péan .

The family Cibel or Sibel has at the 15th century Cochinière with Livet, the Pines , Aunay-Péan (today Montecler), and Mirouaut or Mirvault close to Castle-Gontier. This noble family is allied with the the Pig , the Nepveu and the Quatrebarbes .

One gives him for blasonnement: fascé of gold and azure of six parts .

Colas Cibel holds bases of Saugère , 1370.
Guillaume Cibel , Monday of the Saint-Michel 1371, receives Julienne Delaunoy , parish of Saint-Christophe, all his heritages in the Holy-Suzanne châtellenie of , " with load only to control it and Li fère its provision of drinking, mangier, vestier, chaucer, At other things necessary to its gouvernement" . He lived in 1414.
Jean Cibel , 1443, 1452.
Michel Cibel , 1457, husband of Catherine of Bailleul . The consent of Michel Cibel to Rene d' Alençon, (in 1477), Viscount of Beaumont, baron of Holy-Suzanne , includes/understands the high justice of Aunay-Péan , the smallholdings and ponds of Ruaude , the Gautrais , the Oisillère , the strongholds of Mondoucet held of Montcrintin , the titles of forester of Viraille and Saulgé , the strongholds of Aubigné , held of the lord of the Vault .
Jean Cibel , rider, curator with Ambroise de Loré of the children of Etienne of Bailleul and Radegonde de Loré , 1510
Jean Nepveu . lord of With a grid and the Stone quarry , wife on February 21st 1529 Catherine Cibel , widow of Jean the Pig (°? - X 1519 - † August 21st 1525) lord of Mirouaut , 1537
Jacques (or Jacq) Nepveu , oldest son of the lord of With a grid and Francoise de Mascon, wife, also on February 21st 1529, Francoise the Pig , lady of Charné, girl of Catherine Cibel Vve the Pig (news woman of Jean Nepveu) .
Jacques Nepveu , lord of the Stone quarry, Aunay, Maroilles cheese, Méhubert, Roussière, Touches-Quatrebarbes , 1548, 1569.

Jacques had two sons which died without children: Claude and Antoine, and a girl, Renee, married to Louis de Montecler.

Antoine Nepveu , wire of the precedents, marries on January 2nd 1565 Hilaire Gastineau , girl of Rene Gastineau, knight, lord of the Tower of Germigny and the Mound-Saint-Bonnet, and Francoise de Villequier . Baron de Charné, of the Stone quarry, of With a grid, knight about the king, it was with the camp in front of La Rochelle on March 28th 1573.

Renee Nepveu , young lady of Maroilles cheese , Marie on July 12th 1568 with Louis of Montecler .

The family of Montecler

Louis de Montecler , married on July 12th 1568 with Renee Nepveu , young lady of Maroilles cheese , († May 1581 assassinated).
Urbain de Montecler wife on April 18th 1598, of the assent of its godfather Urbain of Montmorency-Laval Boisdauphin, Marie of Froulay , † May 8th 1641. In 1618, to obtain an authorization to make there say the mass, Urbain de Montecler exposes " that it made build a vault very walls, glaze of ardoize, glazed, paved, closing with key, in which is a beautiful furnace bridge, a crucifix, several beautiful and large tables of istoires" .
Andre de Montecler , husband of Marie of the Arrow , † April 2nd 1657. The vault is equipped with two bells of this time (1634 and 1643).
François de Montecler , oldest son, wife in court of Rouen, on October 12th 1658, Marie Langlois de Motteville . He was Viscount of Raveton , lord of the Mesnil-Mauger, Saugère, Tremblay, Saint-Christophe , etc… ; he was with the service of king de Flandre in 1667.
Andre-Marie de Montecler , the second of its sons, made its wishes of knight of Malta in the abbey church of Évron on June 11th 1698.
Georges-François de Montecler , oldest son, had married on August 8th 1693 Anne of Matraye , girl of Ambroise of Matraye and Anne Gaudin.
Joseph-François de Montecler , wire junior, married Hyacinthe Menon de Turbilly , whose marquis de Sourches praised the beauty. In 1710 it equipped the vault with the castle of ordinary of masses, " for the receipt of a wish which it had made Ci-devant" . On this date and until the end of the 17th century, Rongère of Saint-Sulpice became the main home of the marquis de Montecler.

Blasonnement

Currency: Magnus inter avoid .

To see in the surroundings

the castle of Montecler, deprived, is not visited.

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