Château de l'Aunay

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Le château en bref

The Château de l'Aunay lies about 1.5 km south of the village of Marigné-Peuton, in the south of the Mayenne, near Château-Gontier. Abbé Angot describes it as ‘ferme et château’ (farm and castle). It was the seat of a seigneury of high justice, whose lords of Marigné claimed the feudal mouvance. The estate comprised a manor house, a chapel, a moat crossed by a drawbridge, a fishpond and a mill. The chapel held a tithe, which the parish priest reported in 1792. From the 15th to the 18th century, the estate passed from Jean de Maimbier to the Laval-Boisdauphin family, then to Gabriel Constantin and the marquises de Langan, who sold it in 1761 to François Patry de Laubinière. After his death, his heirs had to defend the estate against the lord of Marigné, who attempted a feudal retrait in 1782.