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Le château en bref
The feudal motte of Loubert, in the commune of Terres-de-Haute-Charente (Roumazières-Loubert), has occupied a strategic site overlooking the narrow Charente valley since the 10th century; it is first mentioned in a charter dated between 1032 and 1070, and a church was built nearby in the 11th century. In the 13th century, the lords of Chabanais, owners of the site, replaced the original wooden tower with a square stone keep (7.50 x 6.50 m), set on the southern side of a circular platform about 20 metres in diameter and 15 metres high. Raised to a barony in the 17th century and then ceded to the Salignac-Fénelon family until the Revolution, the fortress probably disappeared during the Wars of Religion, around 1570; the remains of a pointed-vaulted lower hall cut into the rock, still visible in the 20th century, were demolished around 1860. Only a few remains survive today.