Château de la Coussière

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Coussière, now in ruins, was the seat of the châtellenie of Saint-Saud, about one kilometre from the village church, in the Périgord vert. This châtellenie, which also included the parish of Romain, lay on the frontier between the French and English domains: contested from the mid-twelfth century onwards, it changed hands several times along with the neighbouring viscounty of Nontron. Ravaged during the Hundred Years' War, the fortress was destroyed in the fifteenth century and never rebuilt. In the eighteenth century, the lordship belonged to the d'Arlot de Frugie family, then to the Cumont family, who did not reside there.