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 Junies Castle aux Junies dans le Lot

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine défensif
Demeure seigneuriale
Château de style Renaissance

Junies Castle

    D45
    46150 Les Junies
Private property
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Château des Junies
Château des Junies
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Timeline

Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1200
1300
1400
1500
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
1214
Initial data
1368
Destruction during the Hundred Years War
vers 1500
Renaissance reconstruction
1608
Transition to Touchebœuf-Beaumont
1793
Revolutionary destruction order
1925
Historical monument classification
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Castle: inscription by order of 21 October 1925

Key figures

Bertrand de Jean - Merchant and founding lord First owner in 1214.
Jean du Pré - Poet and Lord Renaissance Bring the castle after 1526.
Antoine de Morlhon - Attorney General of Parliament Lord of the Junies in 1477.
Jean-François de Touchebœuf-Beaumont - Count of Junies in the 18th century Add Louis XV decor around 1750.
Marguerite de Touchebœuf-Beaumont - Last owner before 1815 Buy the castle in 1794.
Madame Barberet - Restaurant restaurant in 1921 Save the castle from ruin.

Origin and history

The Junies castle came into being in 1214, when Guillaume de Cardaillac, bishop of Cahors, offered the land of Canourgues to Bertrand de Jean, a cadurcian merchant enriched in trading and banking. This donation, linked to the Albigois Crusade, marks the beginning of the Junies seigneury, whose name evolves from Joanies. The family of John, integrated into the local nobility thanks to its fortune, developed the estate until its partial destruction during the Hundred Years War. In 1368, the castle, occupied by English troops, was besieged and demolished by order of the king of France.

In the 15th century, the seigneury passed into the hands of the Morlhon and the Pre families. Antoine de Morlhon, attorney general of the Toulouse parliament, then his descendant Jean du Pré, poet and companion of arms of François I, marked this period. The castle is rebuilt around 1500 in Renaissance style, with sled windows and round towers. The Touchebœuf-Beaumont, which acquired the seigneury in 1608, brought interior arrangements in the 18th century, such as gypseries and woodwork Louis XV. The French Revolution spared the castle despite an order to destroy the archives in 1793.

Purchased in 1794 by Marguerite de Touchebouf-Beaumont, the castle deteriorated before being restored in 1921 by the Barberet family, the current owner. Ranked a historical monument in 1925, it preserves traces of its successive transformations: medieval foundations, Renaissance elements and 18th century decorations. Its rectangular plan, flanked by three towers, bears witness to its evolution from a fortress to an aristocratic residence.

The history of the castle is closely linked to regional conflicts, such as the Hundred Years War or the Wars of Religion, as well as to the social ascent of trading families that have become noble. John's, then the Touchebouf-Beaumont, illustrate this mobility, while architectural developments reflect the tastes of each era, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and modern times.

External links

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