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Origin and history

The castle of Clermont, located in the commune of Concorès in the Lot department, overlooks the hamlet of Linars. His existence was attested as early as 1143 in a pastoral visit report of the Archbishop of Bourges, then detained by a local noble family. This first castle, prior to the present building, belonged to a line of knights, the Gavis, vassals of the Mechmont War in the 13th century. The Hundred Years' War left the estate in ruins, before it was raised in the 16th century by the family Touchebouf-Clermont, which was born in 1449 between Marquèse de Gavis and Jean Touchebouf.

In 1642 the seigneury of Clermont was erected as a county for Antoine de Touchebeuf. After the death of Jacques-Victor de Toucheboeuf in 1689, an estate dispute between his daughter Anne, married to Armand II de Durfort, and her cousin François de Toucheboeuf. An agreement in 1699 divided the property: Anne kept the castle, while François obtained the seigneury of Besse. During the Revolution, the castle, sequestered after the emigration of its owner, was looted and partially destroyed, its archives burned and its stones used as a quarry.

Saved from the ruin in 1930 by Jeanne Palluel, who undertook his restoration after his classification as a historical monument, the castle underwent a new phase of work from 2001. The current owners, Mr. and Mrs. Lust, have restored the main house, stables, chapel (classified in 1922), and vaulted halls of the thirteenth century. The site remains an architectural testimony of medieval and modern transformations in Quercy.

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