Château de Kergounadeach

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Le château en bref

The Château de Kergournadec'h, in Cléder (Finistère), takes its name from a legend according to which a warrior named Nuz helped Saint Paul Aurélien defeat a dragon that was ravaging the Île de Batz. As a reward, he received these lands, ‘Ker-gour-na-dec'h’, ‘the house of the man who does not flee’, along with ecclesiastical privileges for his descendants. The Kergournadec'h family became one of the most powerful in Léon during the Middle Ages; Olivier and Guyomar de Kergournadec'h took part in the War of the Breton Succession in the 14th century. Around 1504, the estate passed by marriage to the Kerhoënt family. The present château was built around 1630 by Sébastien II de Rosmadec: a square building flanked at its corners by four large round towers with machicolated galleries, blending medieval aesthetics with Renaissance innovations, and with a central staircase in the spirit of Chambord. On the death without heir of Sébastien III de Rosmadec in 1700, the château was sold in 1720 to Mathieu Pinsonneau for 502 000 livres. His wife and daughter precipitated its ruin, turning it into a stone quarry. In 1878, the ruins belonged to the Budes de Guébriant family.