Château de Liettres

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Le château en bref

Château de Liettres lies in the Pas-de-Calais, on an artificial platform at the bottom of the marshy valley of the Laquette. Simon de Luxembourg, provost of the chapter of Saint-Omer, had it built in the 15th century; sources differ on the exact date (1452 according to a chronicle by Molinet cited locally, ‘shortly before 1479’ according to others). The castle was burned twice: in 1479 during the advance of Maximilian of Austria's troops, and in 1542 by those of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme. Jean de Zomberghe later acquired it, and his descendants retained it. Originally, four wings formed a quadrangle flanked by large, heavily projecting round towers, with walls of dressed chalk on a plinth of sandstone between 2.50 and 5 m thick. The main residential block was rebuilt around 1720 in the Classical style. The château has been listed as a monument historique since 1929 and remains a private property.