Castle of Colombes was the residence of

Queen Henrietta Maria Henrietta Maria of France ( French: ''Henriette Marie''; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. She was ...

, wife of King

Charles I of England Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland from 27 March 1625 until Execution of Charles I, his execution in 1649. Charles was born ...

, in her exile in France. It was demolished in 1846.

History

Located in the city of the same name, the castle was surrounded by a three-hectare garden. According to historical records, its first owner was a Mr. Barbot, in 1636. In 1657, Queen Henrietta Maria of England settled in Colombes, after being expelled from England in 1644, following the

English Civil War The English Civil War or Great Rebellion was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Cavaliers, Royalists and Roundhead, Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of th ...

. King

Louis XIV of France LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...

and his wife

Maria Theresa Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure, in her own right. She was the ...

visited in June 1665. Negotiations for the

Treaty of Breda (1667) The Peace of Breda, or Treaty of Breda was signed in the Dutch city of Breda, on 31 July 1667. It consisted of three separate treaties between England and each of its opponents in the Second Anglo-Dutch War: the Dutch Republic, France, and Denma ...

, between Holland and England, took place in Colombes. Henriqueta Maria's granddaughters, the future queens

Maria Luisa of Spain Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain ( Spanish: ''María Luisa'', German: ''Maria Ludovika''; 24 November 1745 – 15 May 1792) was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the spouse of Leopold II, ...

and Anne of Great Britain, spent much of their childhood with their grandmother in Colombes. After the death of Queen Henrietta Marie in 1669, Colombes was inherited by her daughter, Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orleans, who died in 1670. The castle remained in the possession of the duchess's husband,

Philippe I, Duke of Orléans ''Monsieur'' Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger brother of King Louis XIV. He was the founder of the House of Orléans, a ...

, until it was sold by the Duke in 1698. The deed of sale describes Colombes as having several main buildings, a courtyard, a garden, etc. In the 19th century, Colombes was renamed ''Château Reine Henriette''. It was demolished in 1846 to make way for a kindergarten.

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