Château de la Mabilière

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Le château en bref

The fortified castle, manor house and noble residence of La Mabilière dates, according to the written records, from the fourteenth century. "La Mabilière" was once a fief of Poitou, dependent on Germiny at Braye-sous-Faye, and under the custom of Anjou it has since become an old farm in Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region, at Courcoué, near Richelieu. This manor has a historic medieval past worthy of the most fabulous tales, with the most droll and rollicking twists and turns, driven by the knights of the region. Jehan Poret, vassal of Jehan de Beuil, Grand Master of the Crossbowmen, his overlord, who gave his consent, had his fief fortified, and remained in the service of Charles VII. This fifteenth-century fortified house had walls and a drawbridge which disappeared at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Around 1945, a defensive tower, half-levelled and also serving as a dovecote, could still be seen. It collapsed during the demolition of an adjoining building. Abandoned, its buildings deserted, one of the three towers, converted into a dovecote with a hip-cut roof, was still standing in 1956.