Château de Coat Men

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The Château de Coat Men (or Coëtmen), in Tréméven (Côtes-d'Armor), had one of the first medieval stone keeps in the département, combining rubble stonework, mortar and a dressed-stone facing, on a polygonal plan about 13 metres in diameter, pierced with narrow-splayed arrow slits staggered in height. The lordship of Coëtmen, received by Geslin de Penthièvre at the end of the 11th century, was linked in 1180 to the viscounty of Tonquédec through the marriage of its heiress to Geslin de Penthièvre. Attacked and partly destroyed in 1222, the site retained in 1966 only a ruined keep and the remains of a castle chapel. Listed as a historic monument in 1927, the keep was deliberately destroyed by the landowner in 1993, which led to legal proceedings that went as far as the Court of Cassation (ruling of 20 June 2000).