Château de Villevieille

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Le château en bref

Villevieille Castle, near Sommières (Gard), was built around 1100 by the Bermond family, lords of Sauve and Anduze, to protect the village then called Villa Vetus. Following the Albigensian Crusade and the revolt of Raymond VII and the Bermonds against Louis IX at the end of the 13th century, the castle spent about a century under direct royal administration. Bernard de Pavée became its owner in 1529; his brother François succeeded him in 1531, and the estate has remained in that family line ever since. The castle suffered fighting and destruction during the second siege of Sommières in 1575. In 1685, Jeanne-Gabrielle de Pavée de Villevieille received Nicolas Lamoignon de Basville there, the new intendant of Languedoc. Spared in 1792 thanks to a fire staged by the villagers, it is now listed as a monument historique and is open to visitors, with the possibility of hosting receptions.