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Château de la Motte-Glain is a château in the Louis XII style, built near the commune of La Chapelle-Glain, in the French department of Loire-Atlantique in the Pays de la Loire region, on the former border between the Duchy of Brittany and the Angevin country.
Built on the site of a former fortress of the lords of Rougé, it is the first of three châteaux rebuilt by Pierre de Rohan-Gié. Château de la Motte-Glain is the one that best preserves a ‘medieval heritage’ and a ‘late Gothic’ character. It belongs to a wave of rebuilding undertaken in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in the Breton Marches, which also saw the reconstruction of the Château d’Ancenis and the building of the Renaissance wing of the Château de Châteaubriant. The château underwent some alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, following a change of ownership in 1635.
Certain parts of the château, namely the entrance gatehouse (châtelet), the cellar, the ruins of the wine press, the chapel, the residential wing (logis), the roofs and the walls, have been inscribed as historic monuments since 7 January 1926, and have been classified since 6 July 1929.