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John Beaufort 1st Earl of Somerset HE01

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building / site Beaufort Castle location Auvergne ; Haute-Loire ; Goudet denomination château MH protected elements pregnant time of construction 13th century; 15th century; 16th century historical Built to oversee and dominate the Loire Valley, the Château de Beaufort is an interesting example of the adaptation of a 13th century feudal castle to the evolution of military construction, including artillery. During the Hundred Years and Religion wars, he experienced historical significance, but suffered a gradual abandonment after the Revolution, which reduced him to ruin. The building has a wall, partly rebuilt in the 15th century, which surrounded the fortress halfway up the hill. The castle itself was, from the beginning, of square plan with a courtyard occupied on the south side by a house leaned against. Antoine de la Tour added in the 16th century a tower on the north-west corner, a large horseshoe tower on the south-west corner, a false braie which remains the north and part of the south pan with corner tower. Inside the enclosure, only some vestiges on the ground or buried reveal the separations of the inhabited parts. Northeast, remains of a vaulted room and a fireplace. The tower of the 15th century was reinforced internally by a wall of lining and pierced with archers and gunboats. state vestiges property property of a private person protection MH 1994/02/07: registered MH Castle, with its enclosures and the floor included in these enclosures (ie A 643 to 645): registration by order of 7 February 1994 type of study MH building census documentation MAP documentation Media library of architecture and heritage reference PA00132734 © Historic Monuments, 1994 date payment 1996/04/16 updated date 2015/09/22 photo credits Genestoux, Franck - Ministry of Culture (France), Media Library for Architecture and Heritage, all rights reserved

building / site Beaufort Castle
location Auvergne ; Haute-Loire ; Goudet
denomination château
MH protected elements pregnant
time of construction 13th century; 15th century; 16th century
historical Built to oversee and dominate the Loire Valley, the Château de Beaufort is an interesting example of the adaptation of a 13th century feudal castle to the evolution of military construction, including artillery. During the Hundred Years and Religion wars, he experienced historical significance, but suffered a gradual abandonment after the Revolution, which reduced him to ruin. The building has a wall, partly rebuilt in the 15th century, which surrounded the fortress halfway up the hill. The castle itself was, from the beginning, of square plan with a courtyard occupied on the south side by a house leaned against. Antoine de la Tour added in the 16th century a tower on the north-west corner, a large horseshoe tower on the south-west corner, a false braie which remains the north and part of the south pan with corner tower. Inside the enclosure, only some vestiges on the ground or buried reveal the separations of the inhabited parts. Northeast, remains of a vaulted room and a fireplace. The tower of the 15th century was reinforced internally by a wall of lining and pierced with archers and gunboats.
state vestiges
property property of a private person
protection MH 1994/02/07: registered MH
Castle, with its enclosures and the floor included in these enclosures (ie A 643 to 645): registration by order of 7 February 1994
type of study MH building census
documentation MAP documentation Media library of architecture and heritage
reference PA00132734
© Historic Monuments, 1994
date payment 1996/04/16
updated date 2015/09/22
photo credits Genestoux, Franck - Ministry of Culture (France), Media Library for Architecture and Heritage, all rights reserved