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La Châtaigneraie was one of the three great seigneuries of Avessac (Loire-Atlantique), along with high, middle and low justice, without a noble title and dependent on Fresnay. Jean de la Chasteigneraye is mentioned there in 1450. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Renée de la Châtaigneraie, the last of her line, married Jean Butault, whose son Jacques probably transformed the medieval manor house into a château in the classical style. Abandoned in 1683 by Gilles Butault in favour of Pordor, it was partly dismantled in the nineteenth century. The Roy family acquired it around 1885: Charles Roy built the present château (1894–1896), and the former building was demolished in 1969.