Château-du-Loir
Château- du- Loir is a French municipality with 4732 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Sarthe and Pays de la Loire region. It is the capital of the Canton of Château- du- Loir
Neighboring municipalities are: Luceau, Flée, Vouvray -sur -Loir, Nogent-sur- Loir and Montabon. Château- du- Loir is a wine-growing village, whose wines are appellation Coteaux du Loir.
History
The land between Maine and Touraine has caused over centuries greed on the part of the French and English kings, which lasted in the fortress of Château- du- Loir to 1789. The French Revolution, in turn, when the city lost half of its population, produced a significant decline which only came to an end with the construction of the railway and the establishment of a railway depot in Château- du- Loir.
During the Renaissance, on the other hand Château- du- Loir was the meeting place for the men of the Pléiade: Pierre de Ronsard, who was in the church of Saint Guingalois 1569-1585 Prior, Racan de Bueil, the brothers Lazarre, Jean -Antoine de Baif, Joachim du Bellay and even occasionally Jacques Peletier du Mans.
Before 1789 was Château -du -Loir seat of a royal governor, whose jurisdiction included 78 municipalities, and thus one of the most important cities in the province of Maine.
After the last Monsieur de Château- du- Loir had died without a male heir to 1095, the place passed to Geoffrey V Plantagenet (who died here on September 11, 1151 ) and its progeny. 1161 Château- du- Loir was conquered by Philip Augustus and came to Guillaume des Roches, Seneschal of Anjou, Maine and Touraine, the abbey founded in 1219 Bonlieu later. The Queen Berengaria, widow of Richard the Lionheart, who had Philip Augustus, where the county Maine in exchange for their possessions in Normandy, the Seneschal relinquished all their rights as Count's widow from, including those regarding Château- du- Loir and the forest of Bercé.
In May 1337 Château- du- Loir went to Philip of Valois, who sold it for 31,000 livres to the Count of Dreux, and later the place was given as an appanage of Louis I of Anjou, then fell under King Louis XI. a second time back to the crown.
The Hundred Years' War did not spare from the fortified city, which was sacked and destroyed by the English. In the 16th century Château- du- Loir experienced a new boom and became an important center of linen weavers, the mill and the tannery.
Twinning
- Ganderkesee ( Germany ) since 1979
- Westbury (Great Britain) since 2000
Sons and daughters of the town
- Stéphane Petilleau (born 1971 ), cyclist
- Angélique Roujas ( b. 1974 ), football player
- Lionel Royer (1852-1926), painter
Weblink
- Website of Chateau du Loir
Beaumont -Pied -de- Boeuf | Château- du- Loir | Dissay- sous- Courcillon | Flée | Jupilles | Luceau | Montabon | Nogent -sur -Loir | Saint- Pierre -de- Chevillé | Thoiré -sur- Dinan | Vouvray sur -Loir
- Municipality in the department of Sarthe
- The wine-growing
- Place in Pays de la Loire