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Château de Rochechouart. Coordinates: 45°49′17″N 0°49′9″E. Château de Rochechouart. Château de Rochechouart is a thirteenth-century French castle, located at the top of the confluence of the Grêne and Vayres rivers in the commune of Rochechouart within the département of Haute-Vienne.
House of Rochechouart. The House of Rochechouart (French: [ʁɔʃ (ə)ʃwaʁ]; Maison de Rochechouart) is the oldest noble family in France. This powerful dynasty of the Carolingian era dates back to Foucher, supporter of Charles the Bald, who became viscount (vicomte) of Limoges in 876. His descendants— Limoges, Rochechouart, Mortemart and ...
Aymeric I, who lived around 990, was the first viscount and established the Rochechouartais dynasty. Aymeric IV took part in the First Crusade at the end of the 11th century at the side of Godfrey of Bouillon, and it was Aymeric VI (1170–1230) who built the present castle, the Château de Rochechouart, the keep and gatehouse of which remain standing.
In the Haute-Vienne département: Château de Montbrun, Château de Rochechouart, the castle in Les Cars, Château de Brie near Champagnac-la-Rivière, the two castles in Châlus - Château de Châlus-Chabrol and Château de Châlus-Maulmont, the romanesque church in Salles-Lavauguyon, the church in Flavignac with reliquary, the reservoir in ...
Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (French: [madam də mɔ̃tɛspɑ̃]), was a French noblewoman and the most celebrated royal mistress of King Louis XIV. During their romantic relationship, which lasted from the late 1660s to the late ...
Louis Victor de Rochechouart, Duke of Vivonne. Louis Victor de Rochechouart, 2nd Duke of Mortemart and Duke of Vivonne (25 August 1636 – 15 September 1688) was a French military officer and nobleman who was a member of the ancient House of Rochechouart. His father, Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart, was a childhood friend of Louis XIII.
Achievement of arms of the Dukes de La Rochefoucauld. The title of Duke de La Rochefoucauld is a French peerage, from the great House La Rochefoucauld, cadets of an ancient House of Lusignan, whose origins go back to Lord Rochefoucauld in Charente in the 10th century with Foucauld 1st (973–1047), first Lord of La Roche then La Rochefoucauld, possibly son of Adémar, Lord of La Roche (952 ...
The castle was built in the 1530s by Antoine de Rochechouart (ca. 1488-1544), a scion of the ancient House of Rochechouart.In addition to being lord of Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, he was Seneschal of Toulouse and Albigeois and Lieutenant-General of Languedoc, Governor of Lomagne [] and of Rivière-Verdun [].