Hasencort castral mound

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Hasencort castral mound, or Hasencort castle, will become the Azincourt farm, located in Émerchicourt in the Nord department. It lies at the watershed line between the Escaut and the Scarpe. The name Azincourt extends to a mining company, a quarry and a railway line, and must not be confused with that of the Battle of Azincourt or the village of Azincourt in the Pas-de-Calais. The site's history is millennia-old, as a feudal motte or the mound of a Gallic tomb is mentioned, followed by a castle destroyed in 1181 by Baldwin V of Hainaut. The domain was taken back in the early thirteenth century by Gilles Brousse, lord of Denain and Hasencort. The present farm is dated by a chronogram on its entrance porch to 1726. A distillery will be installed there. Underground passages are said to survive. In 1840 it became part of the Compagnie des mines d'Azincourt concession. Nearby survive the Azincourt cavalier and the Azincourt quarry.