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Le château en bref
Montchevrier Castle stood on a locality of the same name, about two and a half kilometres south of the village of Nuillé-sur-Vicoin, in Mayenne. It was the seat of a seigneury holding middle and low justice, whose existence is attested as early as 1236, when Emma de Laval granted forest rights to her lord. The estate, long held by the de Brée family, was raised to a castellany in 1542 by Guy XVII de Laval. Lancelot de Brée obtained letters of safeguard there in 1591 and died there in 1600. A description of 1633 mentions walls, moats fed by running water, a drawbridge, a chapel and a dovecote. The chapel of Saint-Jean is mentioned in 1532. In 1677, Charles de Meaulne merged Montchevrier with the neighbouring estate of Lancheneil. The castle, in ruins from the seventeenth century onwards, has left only few visible traces, and its plan and elevations cannot be reconstructed with certainty.