Château du Plessis-Fortia

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château du Plessis-Fortia (or du Plessis-Saint-Amand) is located in Huisseau-en-Beauce, in Loir-et-Cher. Around 1600, the lordship of Plessis-Formentières was sold by the widow of Gilbert du Puy du Fou to Bernard de Fortia III, who began building the château. Left unfinished but habitable at his death, it was completed around 1638 under the direction of Anne de La Barre (raising of the main building, grand stone staircase), with the Parisian mason Jehan Foy. The estate then passed to Bernard de Fortia IV (intendant of Poitou in 1653, then of Auvergne in 1664), then to Jacques de Fortia, and then to the abbé Anne Bernard de Fortia, who sold it in 1728 to Charles Prévost, sieur de Saint-Cyr. It subsequently passed to the Le Gouvello family. The château is listed as a monument historique.