Château de Hagetmau

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Le château en bref

The Château de Hagetmau, in the Chalosse, was the seigneurial residence of the town, now entirely vanished. Owned by the de Lescun family, it was in the Middle Ages a major seat of power for the small town, which then lay within the Navarrese sphere; King Edward I of England stopped there in October 1287. In 1457, a marriage passed the lordship to Odet d'Aydie, adviser to Louis XI, and then, for want of heirs among his grandchildren, to a distant cousin, Paul d'Andoins. On 25 May 1555, Henri II d'Albret, King of Navarre and grandfather of the future Henri IV, died there, shortly after having come to venerate the relics of Saint Girons. Diane d'Andoins, the Fair Corisande, born at the château around 1554, brought the barony into the House of Gramont through her marriage to Philibert de Gramont in 1567; widowed, she lived there and died there in 1621. Her grandson Antoine III de Gramont, the future marshal and duke, is said to have been born there in 1604. Still described as old and magnificent at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the château was gradually abandoned by the Gramont family, definitively deserted in 1763, plundered, and then demolished at the beginning of the nineteenth century. No trace of it is visible today.