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 Castle of Thuriès à Pampelonne dans le Tarn

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine défensif
Demeure seigneuriale
Château fort
Tarn

Castle of Thuriès

    1521 Route du Moulin de Bondouy
    81190 Pampelonne
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Crédit photo : Thérèse Gaigé - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1300
1400
…
1900
2000
1275
First written entry
1290
Purchase by the King of France
1380-1385
Occupation by Mauléon's bastard
1927
Historical monument classification
30 août 1927
Registration for historical monuments
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Castle of Thuriès (rests of): inscription by decree of 18 June 1927

Key figures

Sicard Alaman - Lord and Regent of Toulouse County Owner of the castle in 1275.
Raymond VII (IX) de Toulouse - Count of Toulouse Linked to Sicard Alaman, Regent.
Bâtard de Mauléon - Router serving the English The castle was occupied from 1380 to 1385.
Richelieu - Cardinal and Minister Ordained its final dismantling.
Raymond VII (IX) - Count of Toulouse Sovereign to whom Sicard Alaman was close.
Jeanne de Toulouse - Heirite Countess of Toulouse Under Sicard Alaman's regency.

Origin and history

The castle of Thuriès is a medieval fortress built in the 13th century on a rocky peak overlooking the Viaur, in Pampelonne (Tarn). This strategic site controlled the road linking Toulouse to Rodez and Lyon, becoming a major issue during the Hundred Years War, when the Albigois was under French domination and the Rouergue under English control. The first written mention of the castle dates from 1275, when it belonged to Sicard Alaman, a close friend of Count Raymond VII of Toulouse.

In 1290 the senechal of Toulouse acquired the fortress for the king of France and founded the bastide of Pampelonne, named in homage to the Spanish city of Pamplona. During the Hundred Years War, the "Mauléon bastard" road, an ally of the English, seized the castle by ruse between 1380 and 1385 and used it as a base for raids. After its restitution for ransom, the castle, already in bad condition, is definitively ruined by order of Richelieu.

Today, the castle remains only vaulted cellars and a semi-cylindrical tower, probably the ancient dungeon. This tower, not arched, has a capucine-shaped entrance. The remains, listed as historical monuments in 1927, belong to the commune of Pampelonne and overlook a landscape marked by the Viaur River, a natural border between Tarn and Aveyron.

External links

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