Château de Pranzac

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The Château de Pranzac, also known as the château of the Counts des Cars, depended on the viscountal fief of the bishopric of Angoulême and on the castellany of La Rochefoucauld. Built around 1140 by Guillaume Jourdain, it was held by the Jourdain family from the 12th to the 15th century, then by Catherine de Clermont, who had a residence and a side chapel built there in the early 16th century and lived to the age of one hundred. Alexandre Redon, who became a marquis, passed it on in 1682, through his daughter's marriage, to François de Pérusse, Count des Cars; the family kept it until the emigration of the last marquis in 1814.