Sagonne
Sagonne is a commune with 219 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Cher in the Centre region; it belongs to the arrondissement of Saint- Amand- Montrond and Canton Sancoins.
History
Sagonne bears his name after the Roman goddess Soucouna protection to the base of a statue with her name was found here. Sagonne is a Gallo- Roman oppidum on the Roman road from Lyon to Bourges on Autun. The first written record comes from the year 832, as Wicfried, Count of Bourges, the Domaine his daughter Agane the occasion of her marriage to Robert the Strong handed.
From Agane the counts of Blois and Champagne come from, who added the fief Sagonne the County Sancerre. Anne de Bueil, heiress of Sancerre, married in 1428 Pierre d' Amboise, the comrades in arms of Joan of Arc. Their descendants lived in Sagonne, which was raised in the 15th century to the county, to Antoinette Babezieux was forced to the place in 1542 to sell to Jean Babou.
1632 bought Charles de L' Aubespine Sagonne be wasteful nephew had to give it to satisfy his creditors. Claude Lebas de Montargis bought the castle in order to redistribute them almost immediately, whereupon his father Jules Hardouin -Mansart did cancel the first transaction to acquire it in 1699 itself - and with this feudal domain the corresponding title of Count. During the French Revolution Anne d' Arpajon, heiress Mansart and governess of Marie Antoinette, was guillotined.
The castle was ransacked, covered the roofs to get to the existing lead, and the building then used as a quarry and farm. 1914, the property was declared a monument historique, but remained deserted. Only in 1977 acquired a descendant of Jean babous the building, began restoration work and opened the castle later interested visitors.
Demographics
Attractions
- The Sagonne castle from the 12th and 15th centuries
Personalities
- Louis de Sancerre, seigneur de Bomiers, Constable of France ( 1342-1402 ).
- Marguerite, Comtesse de Sancerre, Dame de Sagonne ( 1355-1419 ).
- Charles II d' Amboise, seigneur de Chaumont, Marshal of France
- Jean Babou, Grand artilleur de France, † 1569
- Gabrielle d' Estrées, mistress of Henry IV
- Charles de L' Aubespine, Keeper of the Seals of France 1630
- Jules Hardouin -Mansart, architect
- Anne d' Arpajon: Marie Antoinette's governess.
Augy -sur- Aubois | Chaumont | Givardon | Grossouvre | Mornay -sur -Allier | Neuilly -en- Dun | Neuvy -le- Barrois | Sagonne | Saint- Aignan -des- Noyers | Sancoins | Vereaux
- Commune in the department Cher
- Place in Centre