Montoire-sur-le-Loir Castle

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Le château en bref

Montoire-sur-le-Loir Castle, now a listed historic monument in ruins, stands on the left bank of the River Loir. First mentioned at the beginning of the 11th century in the County of Vendôme, its stone keep was built around 1080 by Hamelain de Langeais. Taken by Richard the Lionheart and then by Philip Augustus in 1188, who used it to attack the castle of Trôo, it was reinforced in the 13th–15th centuries under John IV of Vendôme. Occupied by the Catholic League in 1589–1590, it was dismantled on the orders of Henry IV in 1593. The commune acquired it in 1846; the ruins have been listed as a historic monument since 1862.