The history of the castle of Brissac
Between Touraine and Brittany, here Anjou, opulent vineyards and decorated with ancient monuments. A stock of the large and small section of the curiosities there retains churches, chapels, monasteries, abbeys, commanderies, a cathedral and a bishop, which would add the bourgeois order fifty houses.
Since finally the monumental Anjou is particularly lady, castles in large numbers, of course, of unequal importance. A dozen, at most, deserve to have in the constellation of the Loire castles, among the stars of the first size. Brissac is one of them.
The calling of Brissac a military is first: centered eminence of a river - the Aubance, road junction south, it is not surprising that a count of Anjou, to the X th century has chosen to erect a fortified pivot point. The Count of Anjou Fulko was the famous Nerra, sometimes rugged and looters, now crushed and manufacturer.
His hedgehog wood and stone, of which no trace remains when subway, had to undergo many avatars, and see many battles: Thus in 1068, two feudal lords, Geoffrey the bearded and Fulk Rechin engaged in the struggles in him; The Rechin beat Barbu, not really that we chaille! The lock in hand to hand.
The family name at the turn of the documents originated: Rouault, Chemillé, Rocks, The Hague Passavant. Philipp August appears in Brissac 11th May 1206, Ascension of the Ascension: venit apud rex Francorum Brachessac in the Ascensionis. The centuries parade. But these times are unclear: little documentation, no iconography.
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