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The Château de Valognes was a castle in
The Château de Valognes was a castle in Valognes
Valognes () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Geography
Valognes is situated in the Cotentin Peninsula, southeast of Cherbourg. Valognes station has rail connections to Caen, Paris and Cherbourg.
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, Manche
Manche (, ) is a coastal French département in Normandy, on the English Channel, which is known as ''La Manche'', literally "the sleeve", in French. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.Bertrand du Guesclin
Bertrand du Guesclin ( br, Beltram Gwesklin; 1320 – 13 July 1380), nicknamed "The Eagle of Brittany" or "The Black Dog of Brocéliande", was a Breton knight and an important military commander on the French side during the Hundred Years' W ...
captured it in 1364 and 1374 from the English garrisons. The castle was destroyed under orders of King Louis XIV of France
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of V ...
in 1689, leaving only a small tower, which was destroyed by bombing in 1944.
References
*Stéphane William Gondoin. ''Les châteaux forts au temps de Guillaume le Conquérant''. September 2015 * G. Le Barbanchon. ''Le château de Valognes et ses origines'' in: ''Revue de la Manche'', tome I, fasc. 2, April 1959 Castles in Manche Former castles in France {{Normandy-stub