Château de Montagut

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Le château en bref

The Château de Montagut is a ruined feudal castle located in the commune of Saint-Sauveur-de-Montagut, in the Ardèche, on a granite spur overlooking the confluence of the Eyrieux, the Glueyre, the Orsanne and the Auzène. The site is mentioned as early as the second half of the 11th century, when a certain Pons de Montagut appears as a witness to a donation made to the priory of Saint-Julien-d'Orcival. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the lordship was at stake in relations of vassalage between the lords of Roche and the counts of Valentinois, later of Poitiers-Valentinois: in 1280, Aymar de Poitiers paid homage to the King of France for the castle, before the restitution of the lordship to Guigue de Roche was ordered by royal letters in 1300. A former medieval military post, the castle overlooks the village that grew up at its foot. Only remains survive today: a quadrangular keep about 7 metres on each side, built of small-block granite masonry and dated to the 12th century on the basis of its morphology, a vaulted cellar beneath the heavily razed tower, and traces of a small fortified bourg below. Privately owned, the ruins can be viewed freely from the outside via a footpath.