Antic, paintings, old weapons museum - Chāteau de Gourdon

700-937 - Saracens troops occupied the country.
XIIe century - Counts of the Province put up a strong place on the IX century's foundations : Gordon became Gourdon.
3 avril 1235 -Property of the Grasse family, Lord of the Bar, then of Villeneuve.
1469 - The locals paid tribute to Louis of Villeneuve.
1495 - Charles VII confided it to the most privileged and highest jurisdiction of premises.
1584 -Wars of the league. Henry-Charles of Grasse held against the leagues from the top of this fortress.

March 1597/November 1598 - Louis de Lombard acquired the entire lords for 12 000 ECU'S.
30 August 1597 - Patent letters of Henri IV, exposed in the castle.
1610 - Edification of the arrades and of the first floor, in the spirit of the Vosgue Place in Paris (1607).
1653 - Edification of the first floor by Francois of Lombard, whom married Gabrielle of Grimaldi in 1654.
19 May 1643 - The great Count, Duke of Enghien, honoured the Lord of Gourdon for serving her majesty with dignity and for loosing an arm from a shot gun wound in the battle of Rocroy.
1746 - Austria's successive wars. The sergeant of Guise stayed in the c astle and had a duel with the Marquees of Bissy in its park.
The revolution - John-Paul I of Lombard did not emigrate. His presence and liberal ideas saved his castle from devastation. Only the towers and the north dungeon were affected, reducing it to one floor.
1820 - John-Paul II, captain of the Royal Loraine Cavalry regiment, mayor of Gourdon since 07 October 1809 died. The castle was then handed to his nephew, the Marquees Ferdinand of Villenerve Bargemont.
1918/1938 - The castle was no longer the property of the Lombard's, Miss Noms an American citizen became the owner.
1942/1945 - The German troops occupied the castle.
1950 - The castle was opened to the public.

Armure de campagne sur sa cotte de maille.
Milieu du XVIe. Les bras sont posés
sue une épée à deux mains.

Weapons and armors

ARMES DES
DE GRASSE
D'or, au lion de sable
armé, couronné,
villené, lampassé
de gueule.

ARMES DES LOMBARDS
DE GOURDON
D'or à trois
sempervives
arrachées de sinople
posées deux et un.

ARMES DES
VILLENEUVE
De gueules fretté
de lance d'or,
d'écussons de même.
Ecu d'azur, chargé
d'une fleur de lys.

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